HARVESTING AND STORING 



storage is to keep ice above the fruit, allowing 

 the cold air to flow down the sides of the room. 

 A shaft in the middle of the room will serve to 

 remove the warm air. This method is open 

 to the objection of difficulty in storing the ice 

 above the fruit. Moreover the uniformity of 

 its cold air supply is questionable. Mechanical 

 storage in which cold temperatures are secured 

 by the compression or absorption of gases is 

 altogether impracticable for individual grow- 

 ers, as it costs from $1.50 to $2.00 a barrel of 

 capacity to construct such a storage. Rents 

 of this kind of storage range from 10 to 25 

 cents a barrel per month, or 25 to 50 cents a 

 barrel for the season of from four to six 

 months. 



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