COOL STORAGE FOR APPLES. 



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Sorting* t*Or.*i room 



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Fig. 1S05. 



door, and the only entrance to the storage 

 room is through this sorting- room. This 

 protects the storag^e room from outside tem- 

 peratures, and permits work to go on, either 

 bringing in fruit or taking it out, without 

 disturbing seriously the atmosphere in the 

 storage room. The space overhead will be 

 needed for storing barrel stock, &c. 



The front (double sliding) door should be 

 6 feet wide, and the two inside doors should 

 be 3 feet 6 inches. It will be an advantage 

 to have two inside doors, arrang-ed as shown 

 in the plan. If a single door is used between 

 the two rooms and is put in the middle of 

 the partition, it will admit more drafts of 

 outside air to the storag-e room, and will not 

 be so convenient in handling- barrels from 

 one room to the other. 



No ice or artificial refrigeration is needed 

 in this house, at least not for any place north 



Eni Btevation, 

 Fig. 1806. 



of Virg-inia. The temperature can be easily 

 controlled by the w^indows and the ventilators 

 shown in the various elevations. This 

 method has been tried by hundreds of fruit 

 g-rowers, and has been found much superior 

 to ice storagfe under most circumstances. 



The walls should be double-thick. Inside 

 they should be boarded with matched lumber 

 on the studs, and then closely ceiled on top 

 of this. The ceiling- should also be heavily 

 painted. This is absolutely essential. Out- 

 side they should have a sheeting of inch 

 lumber and a coat of building- paper on top 

 of this, the w^hole to be covered with matched 

 novelty siding. This may seem a good deal 

 of material to put into the walls, but it will 

 pay. Still, one or two layers may be omitted 

 "at the owner's risk." 



This house will cost from $800 to $1200, 

 depending- on who builds it, and where. 



