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fruit was maturing and putting on its best color." Here in New 

 England you want to leave your apples just as late as you can 

 and have time enough to handle them. Now then if we have a 

 storehouse that will help us along that line, it is worth consider- 

 able. One man who built a storehouse several years ago, Mr. 

 Tracy, a neighbor of mine — the upper part of the building was 

 built by a railroad construction company and they gave it to 

 him when they got through and he built a cellar right under it — 

 carried 800 barrels, and the first year he put his apples in there 

 .without grading or sorting, and the buyers went to buy them; 

 no, he didn't want to sell but just as they were getting ready to 

 go away, had closed up their deals, they offered him more than 

 enough to have paid for the building of that storehouse, with 

 that one crop — more than they would have paid him when they 

 were buying apples. You see the importance of these things. 



Now there is another matter which I want to call your atten- 

 tion to in having a storehouse. You know you think more of a 

 good horse if you have a nice barn for him. You think more 

 of a dairy cow, or a lot of them, or a herd, if you have nice 

 stables, up-to-date, all sanitary, clean and nice. And so you feel 

 about your apple orchards. Now you want to have all the 

 interest in an apple orchard that you have in any other kind of 

 operations that you have on your farm. If you are not inter- 

 ested in it, you won't be very successful ; you better sell the 

 first opportunity you get. 



F. H. Morse. I have had a little experience in cold storage, 

 and my experience corroborates every word Mr. Kinney has said 

 in regard to the success of it. Mine is simply a dead-air space 

 building, very cheaply constructed. We hired a carpenter for 

 just a few days to put up the building and get the outside finish 

 on. The inside of it we did wholly ourselves. We found that 

 we could do it better; that is, that while we were not so used 

 to carpentering, we were more sure of getting what we wanted 

 doing it ourselves than we were to hire it. The building of it 

 is simply a matter of thoroughness. The air spaces have got 

 to be air-tight and that is all there is to it. And then this matter 

 of convenience that Mr. Kinney has spoken of is a very great 

 factor. As he said he did this year we have done for ten years ; 

 we have taken our apples right from the trees. Where we have 

 to hire our work done, as I do, to depend on hired help, it is no 



