FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. 109 



The storage I put iip will hold about fifteen thousand barrels of apples, 

 the ice storage hold about one thousand tons. This is no easy job. It 

 comes at a time of year when it is cold. If you could d<» it in the summer 

 and keep warm, it would not be so bad. 



After trying the Coojjer storage for two years, I decided to change. 

 There are three systems of cold storage in conunon use — one is ammonia, 

 one is carbonic acid and the otlier is cold blast. The different men who 

 came to look over the' storge said they could not use the piping system 

 1 had. The Cooper sysem is a gravity system and the pipes could not 

 stand the pressure. This system has some of the best ideas in its in- 

 stallation that I ever lie'ard of. The}' have what is known as a tray under 

 all the pipes to catch the drip. They also have a tray over the pipes that 

 holds calcium chloride. This is put in the trays over the pipes and as the 

 air dissolves it, and it drips over the'* pipes, it cuts the frost off the pipes. 

 This keeps the air in the storage dry which is much better than rooms 

 kept cold from a straight piping system. I finally found a man who 

 could use the piping system I had. He put in a brine shell tlie^ same 

 shape of the water boiler with tubes in it. It is covered with cork and 

 the ammonia is in the tubes. Under our pre^sent system w^e can run the 

 temperature of any room down to tAventy or even less. We aim to keep 

 the temperature from thirty to thirty-two. With this system 

 I can keep the room at any temperature and if the pipes drip, as 

 they do when storing peaches, as the temperature for peaches has to be 

 around 3G° to 37°, the trays take the drip and I cannot get a damp condi- 

 tion in the room. This system is entirely satisfactory. The cost is less 

 than with a direct expansion of ammonia because when we get the brine 

 cooled, we can take the engineer off and let the brine circulate* all night 

 without further attention. The brine pump is run by a 5 h. p. motor. 



Q. Do you use any ammonia? 



A. Yes, to cool the brind 



Q. What does it cost? 



A. About 25c per lb. I have a well of myl own that I used and the 

 water is used over and over, as it comes from the system it is discharged 

 into a pond and from there* runs back into the well. It is imperative 

 that you have a good supply of water. If you have to buy jour water 

 from a Waterworks Company, the cost would be almost prohibitive. If 

 you cannot get a good water sujiply of your own, use some cooling spray, 

 so as to use the water over and ove'r. 



Q. What is the storage cost? 



A. Forty cents for the season. One man who stores apples with me 

 says he would rather draw^ to my storage and pay ten cents more, be- 

 cause he can get unloaded and get back and make an extra trip every 

 half day. This same man stored his potatoes last year and the cost was 

 not mucli except his own work. He put in 2,300 bushels of potatoes 

 and used the roller system to unload with. I suppose you have the same 

 thing. This man is the greatest potato grower of New York State. Pota- 

 toes were then fifty cents per bushel, they went on up to eighty. He 

 wanted -fl.OO, they dropped to fifty or sixty cents. Everybody began to 

 laugh at him. Potatoes finally Avent to fl.OO and then he sold them. 

 Within two days he could have received fl.lO. He made money on the 

 storage of his potatoes after the apple season. 



