STORING AND PACKING FANCY APPLES. 



T is evident that our apple growers 

 must adopt new methods, if suc- 

 cess is to be expected. To be 

 successful, fruit growing must 

 become a science, and the best methods 

 followed from start to finish, and this 

 can only be done by the man who 



which to do the work. l'"or winter 

 apples an ice storage house, such as is 

 required for storing summer apples, 

 peaches and other tender summer fruits 

 is hardly necessary, for in autumn the 

 temperature is usually low enough ; and, 

 therefore, the only requirement is a 



Fig. 1225 — Kenney'.s Apple Storage Hou.se. 



makes fruit growing a business. He 

 must first grow only the very finest 

 varieties for export, and then he must 

 cultivate, thin, spray and prune, so that 

 only fancy stock is allowed to mature. 

 And when he has learned the art of 

 growing fancy fruit he must also learn 

 to grade and pack the same. The first 

 requisite, of course, is a warehouse, in 



frost proof building in which the fruit 

 can be stored and packed during the 

 winter for shipment as fast as may be 

 convenient, according to the require- 

 ments of the market. 



There are several of these frost proof 

 apple houses in our province, and one 

 of them belonging to Mr. Walter Demp- 

 sey, of Trenton, has been pictured in 



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