A NOVA SCOTIA FRUIT HOUSE. 



If HE following description of a Nova 

 Scotia apple storage house is 

 furnished me by my friend, Prof. 

 ^7J F. C. Sears, director of the horticul- 

 tural school at Wolfville. He says that apple 

 warehouses are each year becoming- more 

 common in the great apple district of Nova 

 Scotia, the Annapolis valley. They are 

 built either by large speculators who deal 

 extensively in apples, by English commission 

 firms for the accommodation of their patrons, 

 or by co-operative associations of the grow- 

 ers themselves, and are used either for the 

 permanent storage of fruit or for temporary 

 storing of apples as they are brought from 

 the farm, and until they can be forwarded 

 by rail to Halifax, and there loaded on 

 steamers for England. Fig. 2 194 shows one 

 of several which were built in 1899. It is 

 85 feet long by 20 feet wide, and has a 

 capacity of about 4000 bbls. , with loading 

 accommodations for three cars at one time 

 alonof the side. 



Perspective of Xova Scotia 

 House. 



The building rests on a stone and brick 

 cellar wall 8 feet deep, and the superstruc- 

 ture has walls 10 feet high. The walls are 

 covered, on the outside of the studding, 

 with two courses of inch boards, with build- 

 ing paper between, and this again is covered 

 with paper, with shingles on the outside. 

 Inside, the walls are first lathed and plas- 

 tered with selenite and lime mortar. Then 

 inch strapping is nailed against the studding, 



and the whole is covered with i-in tongued 

 and grooved spruce sheathing. The ceiling is 

 covered with the same kind of sheathing, 

 with building paper laid lengthwise of the 

 joists between them and the sheathing. The 

 upper floor is also laid double, with paper 

 between, thus protecting the body of the 

 building from frost from above. 



The window and door frames are made 

 with double casings buried in the covering 

 in such a manner as to preclude the possi- 

 bility of draft or frost, as seen in Fig. 2195. 

 The windows have double sashes, and are 

 provided with storm shutters for protection 

 against heat as well as cold. The doors are 

 also double, one swinging outward and the 

 other inward, and fitting closely into beveled 

 jambs. These doors are built on 2-in pine 

 frames, with i-in tongue and grooved sheath- 

 ing on each side of frame, and paper between. 



There are three hatchways in the lower 

 floor, provided with gratings, ^ or tight 

 hatches if required. The ventilators extend 

 from the ceiling to the root, and are provid- 

 ed with slides to close when necessary. The 

 cellar has also double windows and 4-in 

 ventilator tubes in the sides. Both the cellar 

 and the main floor of the building are proof 

 against frost in the coldest weather, and 

 altogether this warehouse is admirably 

 adapted to the purpose for which it was 

 built, and has proved invaluable to shippers. 



*From advance sheets of Prof. F. A. 

 Waugh's book on " Fruit Harvesting, Stor- 

 ing, Marketing." 



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Fig. 2195. Section Through Wall and Window. 



