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may start from the ground or be built 

 on a bracket. Now comes the cold-air 

 drafts, which are placed in the four 

 sides of the furnace room and as near 

 the ground as possible; this is to give 

 the furnace air as well as allowing the 

 moisture to pass off from the drying 

 apples. The area of the four holes 

 should be about 10 per cent of the area 

 of the kiln floor and the area of the 

 ventilator in the roof at least 15 per 

 cent of floor area. There is no fixed 

 shape for a ventilator so long as you 

 get the opening large enough. Cost of 

 large furnace about .$50, and cost of 

 three coils of ten-inch pipe is .$30, made 

 from best grade refined iron. 



Understand this plant is a hand- 

 power plant throughout and will not 

 cost near as much as a power plant of 

 same capacity. This plant ran about 

 eighty days last fall and dried about 

 6,500 bushels. It is equipped with two 

 hand-power machines that costs .$10 or 

 $11 each, and a hand-feed rotary slicer 

 that costs about $15. Three women 

 were employed to trim the apples; 

 one machine run full time and the 

 other about half time, by the owner, 

 and balance of his time was taken up 

 with other work about the dryer, such 

 as turning apples on kiln, getting in 

 peeling apples, keeping floor clean as 

 possible, slicing the bleached apples 

 and keeping close watch of the fur- 

 naces. About 60 bushels can be pared 

 on one of these machines and two aver- 

 age good trimmers will trim them. 

 The third woman in this case trims the 

 apples from the second machine; there- 

 fore I might call it a machine and a 

 half dryer and run out about 80 or 85 

 bushels per day. Now these women 

 were paid $1 for nine hours' work and 

 the man or boy who peeled steady 

 about $1.75 or .*2 per day. This is 

 about all the help required when 

 apples are delivered to the dryer and 

 no night man is employed, so you see 

 he has a help expense of $5, not fig- 

 uring his time, which we will figure at 

 $3, as he puts in long hours. This 

 makes $8 without fuel cost and ma- 

 chine repairs, which is not much in 

 this case; but about $2 more is about 

 right. That will bring the drying price 

 per bushel about 12 or 13 cents. Now 

 most of these apples were bought at 

 35 or 40 cents per hundred pounds, de- 

 livered. Now it has cost about 33 cents 

 to buy the stock and dry it; the average 

 selling price of this fruit last fall, 

 which was not a good year for the 

 dry-house man by any means, was 6^4 

 cents per pound, and as they were 

 mostly Baldwins, I think he made them 

 go 7 pounds per bushel, which is really 

 heavier than they ought to be made; 

 that makes 47 cents for the white fruit, 

 now there will be about four or five 

 pounds of waste, ^vhich sold for a cent 

 a pound, which is rather cheap. There- 

 fore you can see his bushel of apples 

 bring in about 57 cents, less cost of 

 production, giving the dryer 24 cents 

 profit per bushel, but it will take ex- 

 perienced help to do this amount daily. 

 Probably one-half this would be fair 

 for all new beginners, but in a week or 



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