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traveling buyer in the fall, he will handle his fruit in the manner 

 which this buyer prescribes. Ordinarily, the fruit is handled 

 from the trees into piles, from which the barrels are packed as 

 opportunity offers. In other cases, the apples are placed directly 

 upon a sorting-table and the barrels are filled immediately. In 

 still others, the apples are placed directly from the picker's bas- 

 ket into the barrel without being sorted. Every grower must 

 decide for himself how he shall handle his crop. If he desires^ 

 to market his crop himself and to hold it for some time, await- 

 ing the movements of the market, he will find it essential to have 

 some temporary storage place for his fruit. For myself, I am 



138.— Packing-house of James Austin. 



convinced that apples can generally' be packed better and will 

 keep longer if they are stored for a time after they are picked, 

 in a cool building. This will allow the natural sweating process 

 and the shrinkage to take place, all the inferior fruit will show 

 its blemishes, and the apples can be packed at leisure. If it 

 should happen that the market will not pay for the handling 

 of the fruit in barrels, it is in convenient shape for selling in 

 bulk or for use in evaporators. Figure 129 shows a storage 

 house for apples upon the fruit farm of T. G. Yeomans & Sons, 

 of Walworth, Wayne County, N. Y. In this case the apples are 

 picked in bushel baskets, and from these baskets they are turned 

 into bins in a shed which has an open front. In these apple 



