314 ANNUAL REPORT 



AN ILLINOIS FRUIT HOUSE FOR COLD 

 STORAGE. 



The following description of H. C. Smith's fruit house at To- 

 lona, Illinois, is given in the Illinois Report of 1881 by A. C. Ham- 

 mond and J. S. Johnson, in their report as a committee of obser- 

 vation, page 22 : 



"It is, in short, a house within a house. Two rows of posts are 

 set in the ground, two feet and a half apart, boarded up inside and 

 out, and the intervening space filled with straw, packed in as 

 closely as possible ; two sets of rafters are then put on, the upper 

 set three feet above the lower, which are boarded on the under 

 side, and the space — like that in the wall — closely packed with 

 straw ; after which a cheap board roof, with a ventilator on the 

 top, is put on, double doors put in, and the building is ready for 

 use. When we visited it on the 11th of August, with the ther- 

 mometer standing at 98 degrees in the shade outside, we found the 

 temperature within as cold as an ice house, and the building con- 

 taining a quantity of apples in as sound a condition as when taken 

 from the trees ten months before. 



TOP-GRAFTING— CONGENIALITY OF STOCK 

 AND SCION 



A. G. Tuttle, of Baraboo, Wisconsin, says : " I have been told 

 that the New Russians were largely worked on Transcendents in 

 Minnesota, and that they have injured. I have some notes taken 

 on top-working Tetofski on Transcendent. I examined a row of 

 cop- worked Transcendents with Tetofski after more than ten 



