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tween is filled with sawdust. The studding for the sides are 2x6,, 

 eight feet high. Outside it is sheathed lengthwise with inch lumber 

 and on this a layer of building paper. Then comes a course of inch 

 pine siding and battened. On the inside a layer of building paper is 

 tacked to the studding and then a course of inch lumber. The 6-inch 

 space between the two courses of sheathing is filled in with sawdust 

 well packed. Building paper is tacked to the under side of the rafters 

 and inch pine ceiling is put on, and the 4-inch space between the roof 

 boards and ceiling is filled in with sawdust. It is ventilated with win- 

 dows at each end. 



The main points to be kept in view when planning a storage place 

 for our apples are good drainage, good ventilation and security from 

 heat and cold. Here in this climate we are very apt to have in the 

 late fall and also during the winter months warm spells of weather,, 

 and during these warm spells the ventilators should be opened at night 

 after the atmosphere has become cool and kept closed during the day- 

 time. In this way a nearly even temperature can be maintained, not 

 so low, perhaps, as in a costly cold storage plant, but sufficiently low 

 as to meet the requirements of the average fruit-grower. 



J. M. PuRDY, Neosho, Mo. 



A lengthy discussion was held on these two papers. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Murray — I think that the paper was certainly a very good 

 paper. Of course each planter must use his own judgment in plant- 

 ing. Everyone has his own peculiar methods of doiug things. I 

 think especially the idea of using care and precit«ion is a splendid one. 

 It certainly saves work. In preparing the ground I loosen it to a con- 

 siderable depth which makes a nice condition for the trees to grow. I 

 like the idea of doing things with some precision — with some care. 

 That is just where we Missourians have been failing. We have been 

 doing things with a lick and a promise, in a great hurry, and have not 

 given enough care and precision to the laying out aud planting and 

 cultivation of our orchards that they require and that they will justify.. 

 I am perfectly well satisfied that if the fruit-growers of Missouri, a& 

 a class, would take as much care of their orchards as the fruit-grow- 

 ers of the Pacific Coast take of theirs, we could beat the people of 

 the Pacific Coast so bad they would not be anywhere. Of course 

 there are certain lines of fruit in which they will always excel, but 

 there are others in which we can and will excel them. 



