GOOD STORAGE FOR THE ORCHAKDIST. 237 



GOOD STORAGE FOR THE ORCHARDIST. 



liixtrsict troiii a papi-T rend liy J . M. I'urcl >■, Ijefurc the Mi>>i>iiii Jlnrticultiiral 

 Society, at Xe»)slio, in Dec, ''Xy.) 



It is not necessary to ^o to any extravagant expent?e, and, besides 

 it is not needed. Select a fj;^ravell}' hillside. Kxcavate to the required 

 size and depth, and then wall it iij) with stone picked off j-oiir fields. 

 Then roof it over. A double roof is best, built in the following^ man- 

 ner: Lay a plate on the wall and put on rafters and sheathing^ as 

 for a roof. Cover gheathing with building: paper. Over this lay 

 a second course of rafters with sheathing as before. Fill in between 

 the two courses of sheathing with sawdust. Then put on the shin- 

 gles. Before shingling a good ventilator should be put in, running 

 up through the roof. Then with double doors to your cellar you 

 are prepared to hold your apples. Care should be taken to see that 

 the cellar is well drained and well ventilated. The main thing is to 

 keep as near an even temperature as possible. In warm weather 

 in the fall, after the apples are put in store, the ventilators should 

 be opened at night and closed in the day time. All the work on a 

 cellar like this can be done with the ordinary help on the farm. It 

 does not require a skilled mechanic to excavate the cellar, to make 

 the mortar or lay the wall. The roof and doors you can build as 

 well. The work can be done at odd times during the summer, when 

 you would not usually be otherwise engaged. 



A good and satisfactory storage for your fruit or vegetables can 

 be put up even cheaper than the one I have described, and it would 

 pay for itself almost the first season. After excavating the cellarand 

 building the wall as before, set up a row of posts along the center 

 the long way of the cellar, high enough when a ridge pole is put on 

 to support the upper ends of the rafters. Cover the rafters with 

 rough boards as for roofing, and then cover with dirt, well packed 

 down and thick enough to turn the water and keep out the frost. The 

 timbers should be of good size, sufticient to sustain the weight of 

 the roof. 



A fruit house entirely above tfie ground can be put up at not a 

 very large cost, in which an even temperature can be maintained 

 and which will keep out the frost, as follows: Prepare a good light 

 foundation of stone for the building. Use 2x4-inch studding" fpr the 

 sides. The sides should be about eight feet high. Sheath on the 

 outside of the studding with inch lumber and cover this with build- 

 ing paper and then on the outside of^this with another course of 

 studding, sheathing and building paper. Do this until the wall has 

 three air spaces. The roof is constructed the same way to protect 

 from heat as well as frost. 



The writer has recently constructed a cellar and fruit house over 

 it, as follows: The Qoor between the cellar and fruit room above is 

 laid with 2x8 joists, ceiled above and below with inch boards and 

 the space between it tilled with sawdust. The studding for the sides 

 are 2xfi, eight feet high ( )ut.^ide it is sheathe<l lengthwise with inch 

 luml^er, and on thi.s a layerof building paper. Then comes a course 

 of inch pine siding and battened. On the inside a layer of building 

 paper is tacked to the studding and then a course of inch luml)er- 



