SUMMER MEETING. 105 



REMAEKS ON LETTERS. 



Mrs. Moyer — I will say tbat a great many have visited at our place 

 when we were running this evaporator of ours, and they say it is a 

 most complete little affair for home use; they like it better than any- 

 thing they have seen. The entire cost of it for lumber, material and 

 making does not exceed $5. 



Mr. Barnes — I believe in encouraging all these implements and 

 fixtures that can be made at home just as much as possible. I do not 

 see any reason why we cannot make evaporators, at home that will 

 give just as good service. 1 want to speak just a few minutes of the 

 evaporator used by Judge Welhouse, the apple-grower of Kansas. He 

 said he tried one evaporator after another of the patented ones, and 

 finally he paid a Mr. Plummer, a great evaporator man, to erect him an 

 evaporator, and he says he used it for two years and then threw it 

 away. He found out from some New Yorkers that home made affairs 

 are better, and he is using one at the present time. 



Take any kind of a clean building you may have already built, if 

 you have one; his is 18 feet square, and the posts are 14 feet high, 14 

 or 16, as you like it, with an earth floor ; around the sides are openings, 

 2 or 3 on a side, that can be closed at pleasure; on the cone of the 

 roof is a ventilator, all the way along, so as to let out the steam from 

 the fruit. Bight feet from the ground a slatted floor is put in ; these 

 slats are of two-inch lumber, and put in in suc'j a way that when nailed 

 down the upper side is about 3-16 of an inch apart, that is, leaves 

 cracks about 3-16 of an inch wide, and the lower side a little wider, so 

 that anything that falls on it will not lodge there, but pass through and 

 not stop up the cracks ; that floor is about 8 feet from the ground. 

 Now, under that floor you can put in any kind of a heating apparatus 

 and run up a brick chimney, or any kind you want, to run up through 

 the middle or center of the building A dryer 18 feet square will dry 

 a hundred bushels a day of 24 hours. 



Around the sides of the building, even with this floor 8 feet high 

 is a sort of a balcony arrangement, and you can step in and out there 

 in handling the fruit. Paring and coring and preparing the fruit of 

 course is another department. 



The apples, some of them, become what they call bone dry, and 

 they will snap and break, become shrivelled in the heat; he has a pro- 

 cess of putting them through water and steaming them and making 

 them soft. He put up his dryer and sells his apples, under the instruc- 

 tions of a New York house. Year before last he hauled 26,400 bush- 



