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Air Storage Houses 



By W. H. Wilson, Nampa Orchard Company, Kuna, Idaho 



THE necessity for suitable storage for 

 fruit has occupied the minds of 

 growers in the last year to a great ex- 

 tent. It was known early in the season 

 that there would likely be a shortage of 

 cars, and from the experience of a great 

 many shippers in past years the prac- 

 tice of shipping fruit to the central 

 markets as fast as packed was a bad 

 one, first, on account of the expense 

 incurred in handling and storage at that 

 end, and secondly, such a practice has 

 always caused a glutted market, thus 

 depressing the prices of packed fruit. 



More local storage plants over the 

 Northwest will enable growers to get 

 more in touch with communities where 

 in ordinary years fruit, and especially 

 apples, is very scarce and high, which 

 places are not supplied by the large 

 contral markets. Local storage plants 

 will also tend to regulate the supply of 

 fruit to the large markets more in rela- 

 tion to the demand, thereby holding 

 prices normal. Ice storage or refrigera- 

 tion plants are impracticable for the 

 average grower, from the standpoint of 

 cost and maintenance. 



Within the last few years air storage 

 has been given a fair trial and from 

 every standpoint has proven a practical 

 solution of the storage problem. The 

 right amount of ventilation or the per- 

 fect circulation of air is perhaps the 

 most essential feature of air storage. 

 Apples held in a storage where there is 

 a free circulation of fresh, cool air will 

 hold up longer than when stored in an 

 artificial cold, and during the frequent 

 changes of weather the temperature of 

 the storage can be maintained at the 

 right degree if the ventilation system is 

 adequately provided for; therefore a 

 system that draws fresh air down under 

 the floor and then up through the tiers 

 of fruit and out at the top of the storage 

 must be the right kind of circulation. 



In the discussion of air storage in 

 detail I will refer to the plants con- 

 structed by the Wilson Orchard Com- 

 pany on Eagle Heights in Nampa and 

 also at Kuna this year, as I am more 

 familiar with the way they were 

 planned and built. In the construction 

 of these plants a government bulletin 

 was closely followed. The excavation 

 was made as for an ordinary basement, 

 except that dirt was carried out at each 

 end of the excavation, and the slopes 

 thus made were later used for entrance 

 to driveway. Our storages as built last 

 fall are 40 x 60 feet, with an average 

 depth of 3 feet below ground level. 

 Within this excavation was constructed 

 the framework of heavy timbers to sup- 

 port the heavy weight of the dirt roof. 

 The side studding is constructed of 2x8, 

 8 feet to the plate from floor of base- 

 ment, spaced 2 feet apart. The bottom 

 rafters are 2x10 inches, 16 feet, spaced 

 16 inches apart; the top rafters are 2x10 

 inches, 10 feet, spaced 16 inches. Four 

 lines of bridging help support the roof. 

 The main supports are four rows of 

 posts 10 feet apart through the length 

 of the building; the center two rows 

 are 6x6, 12 feet high, with 4x12 girder 

 on top; the row of posts on either side 

 of center row are 4x6, 10 feet, with a 

 4x12 girder on top. Every post is 

 braced to the roof each way and in all 

 the frame is sufficiently strong to sup- 

 port the great weight of the dirt roof. 

 The frame is then covered with a 

 medium weight of field fence wire from 

 the ground up over the roof and ends 

 to the plate on the ends. Above the top 

 line of the door where no dirt could be 

 banked the building was boxed and this 

 filled in with straw chaff tightly packed. 

 The ventilators were next placed. There 

 are twelve cold air vents, six on a side. 

 These were built 12 feet long, 16x20 

 inches at the top and 12x20 inches at 

 the bottom, and were then set in holes 

 dug down to the bottom of the basement 

 on the outside of the frame of the build- 

 ing. With the building covered, these 

 stick up above the roof about three feet. 

 Each vent has a hinged cover on top 

 and by this method the cold air is 

 drawn through this 12-foot chimney, so 

 to speak, down to below the floor level. 

 There are four ventilators on the top 

 of the storage equally spaced, which 

 complete the air circulation. These 

 stick up above the roof when covered 

 about two feet. They are two feet 



