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couldn't have sold them for cider apples. Then it lets you hold 

 your fruit until the market calls for it, if you store your good 

 fruit, or if you haven't any storage for good fruit you have got 

 to sell it in the fall, for if you haven't storage the sooner you can 

 get your fruit off your hands into money the more money you 

 will have, even if the prices are low, because fruit goes back very 

 fast and there is a great deal of waste and cost in handling it. 

 Now of course the barreling — when you have it in cold storage 

 you can do it in the winter without hiring as much help, when 

 help is more plenty than it is in the fall, and you can very often 

 do it without hiring any at all, any extra help. So that you gain 

 in this way, you save the loss from dropping, you save your 

 cheaper grades of fruit and get something out of them. And I 

 usually intend to have these cheaper grades pay my bills, and my 

 good fruit I have for myself, or try to. So that I have found 

 that running this house has paid me and I really couldn't get 

 along without it and handle my crop as it should be. Because 

 it is hard to get help in the fall. 



Mr. Atherton : Mr. Clark, I would like to inquire if you 

 have any means of ventilation otherwise than by opening the 

 windows and the doors? 



Mr. Clark : There are no windows in the building. I have 

 a scuttle over the ice box that I cJm open but I don't open it. I 

 find I can control it full as well without opening that and it 

 seems as if I save ice by not opening it. When it is warm it 

 seems as though the ice near that scuttle goes a great deal faster 

 than it does when it is closed, and as the air comes from the 

 chamber underneath, comes up over the ice and down as it grows 

 colder, this circulation keeps the house, I think, full as cold and a 

 little colder perhaps than as if I had ventilation, had this open ; 

 although I open it some and in the fall, frosty nights, and that 

 leads us now you speak of it, perhaps I had better speak of that 

 — I open the door in the main part of the building and also up 

 in the ice box, each end, because when there is a difference in 

 the level of the doors that are open there is a better circulation 

 of air, and I cool the house down better with the same cold out- 

 side than I would if I simply opened the lower one and left the 

 upper one closed. 



Mr. Atherton : Now there is one other question I would 

 like to ask you, what means have you overhead — now a friend 



