378 State Horticultural Society. 



handles it. I am a tinsmith, and got my ideas of heating from furnace 

 work. One has only to recall the old shell boilers of 50 years ago and 

 the present flue boilers to see the advantage of the flues through which 

 passes a current of air. The more flues the more hot air; 15 feet, however, 

 is pretty long for an arch, and unless one can fire from both ends eight 

 feet would be better, although I experience little trouble. I use no grate 

 bars and have but little ash. I run with damper in pipe turned half 

 closed ; the pipe in tray room is seldom too hot to take hold of, showing 

 but little waste heat. The total of perpendicular pipe is 22 feet, and of 

 horizontal 16 to 18 feet. — Rural New Yorker. 



RELATION OF APPLE EXHIBIT TO EXPOSITION. 



(Extract from an address li.v Prof. J. C. Stinson, before the I. A. S. A.) 



"I am interested in both the apple grower and the apple shipper. I 

 have watched with interest and gratification the growth of the Apple 

 Shippers' Association for several years past. In addressing the as- 

 sociation today I h^ve not prepared a paper for the reason I might try 

 to say too much, and I would rather listen to other able speakers than 

 consume your time with the few thoughts I have to bring out. 



"There are some good lessons to be learned by the fruit grower from 

 the up-to-date shipper, along the line of caring for fruit from harvest 

 to consumer. In the Palace, of Horticulture there is a complete exhibit 

 of fruit, kept up by cold storage stock since the opening of the Fair, It 

 is only recently that fresh fruit in any material quantities has been re- 

 ceived. Should this year's crop prove an entire failure, each state has 

 enough cold storage stock to keep its exhibit up in good condition until 

 nearly the close of the Exposition. And each state will keep part of its 

 space covered continually with cold storage stock, and use it to fill out 

 where fresh fruit is lacking. 



'T believe the reason for the possibility of this is that the men in 

 charge have been exceedingly careful in the methods employed in handling 

 the apple from the time it left the tree until it was safe in the cold storage 

 house. In all cases the apple was put in the car as soon as possible after 

 being picked — and in ice cars at that. The fruit was then transferred 

 from the various states to the cold storage plant here in St. Louis in 

 these refrigerator cars, so it was kept cool constantly. If the apple is 

 kept at one temperature continuously it will not spoil in cold storage 

 half as soon as if subjected to a varying temperature. 



