110 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Q. Can yon loll ns wlial I lie average rain fall is in yonr section? 



A. I do not know. 



Q. There is a Geneva bulletin which says that you have 4i/^ or four 

 inches more rain than we have. 



A. Around Syracuse they have considerably more rain than we do. 



Q. Do you i>low u]> your alfalfa? 



A. Yes. I would not advise sowing alfalfa in the orchard and leav- 

 ing it without plowing up. 



Q. Will you give us some of the results you liave obtained from this 

 storage? 



A. I cannot give you any statistics as to prices for I have been stor- 

 ing for many years. 



Q. Do you barrel your apples before you put them in? 



A. Our ap})los are all ju'ckod by the barrel. We unhead the barrels in 

 the barn before we draw them out to the packers. The apples are picked 

 by the barrel and are drawn back to the sorting room. They are sorted 

 and put either in the storage room at once or loaded on the cars, if sold. 

 We try to get them in storage within a day after they are picked. You 

 cannot do this where you ship your apples by the carload for storage. 

 They may lay on the road for several days and may have to wait several 

 more. days at the storage. I should think you could run a co-operative 

 storage as well as anything else. 



Q. Will you tell us about how you are coming out on this cold stor- 

 age game? How about the profit for yourself? 



A. Well, I have been storing my apples for a considerable time. I do 

 not expect to get much more for my apples in my own storage than from 

 the public storage, but I think storage as a rule pays. As far as giving 

 figures, I could not give a guess. I only know I would rather store in my 

 own storage than in some one's else. 



Q. How about the prices for apples at this time of the year? 



A. We are way ahead now. We are at least seventy-five cents ahead 

 of the fellow who sold in the fall. 



Q. How were you the year before and the year before that? 



A. The year before it was about an even break — that is in 1912. The 

 year before that was before I had my own storage. 



Q. What does it cost to run it? 



A. After you have the rooms cooled, it is very little expense to keep 

 them down. Five weeks ago our rooms were cool enough so we did not 

 need the engineer and since that time there has been very little time that 

 the day man did not keej) the temperature low enough. We use electric- 

 ity for our power. It is much, cheaper than steam or gasoline. 



(}. T have a cellar that will hold about five hundred and fifty barrels. 

 Would a system of cold storage pay? 



A. How far are you from a supply of natural ice? 



Q. About a mile and a half. 



Q. You could install the Cooper system for a small amount like that 

 and work it. Or you could put in some system of an ice room with it. 

 The natural ice makes a i-ather damp room and for a building of any 

 size, I would not advise the Cooper system. 



Q. You said that you stored the barrels for forty cents per season and 

 that the dift'erence in price was about seventy-five cents per barrel? 



