1 26 Thinning, Gathering, Keeping, and Marketing. 



Fig. 170 represents a small, portable, fruit-drying house, capable 

 of being carried to the orchard, and used on the ground. It consists 

 of a small building from two and a half to four feet square, or of any 

 other convenient dimensions, the lower part covered with sheet iron 



Fig. 170. 



to prevent danger from fire, and containing a small stove, extending 

 through the house, from the rear of which passes the stove-pipe on 

 the outside, the upper portion of which is seen in the figure. The 

 fuel would be more completely economized by bringing the pipe back 

 again, and passing it up on the same side as the door of the stove, 

 reversing the place of the doors for introducing the shelves. 



