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grafting and caring for to make them bear. The next spring I 

 grafted and also bought 300 more trees and set those out. Well, 

 very soon I found that I had got to have some place to put the 

 apples. There were old buildings on the farm but of course 

 they would only keep apples for a very short time, and that left 

 me wholly at the mercy of the buyers to sell just as soon as they 

 were picked. Well, I am a little bit of an independent disposi- 

 tion and like to use my judgment instead of being obliged to 

 sell at just such a time, so in the summer of '94 I began to look 

 around to find out what was the best provision I could make to 

 store these apples. I went to Harrison and saw Mr. Dawes' 

 fruit house, but he could keep his only by keeping a fire. I then 

 went to the State Fair, and spoke with all the members of this 

 society whom I could conveniently and whom 1 knew, and I 

 wished very much to go up to Franklin county to Mr. Whittier's 

 and see his house. I finally went up there with your Secretary 

 and saw Mr. Whittier's. I came back to the State Fair and the 

 first man I met was your president, and he gave me just the hints 

 that I wanted to build the house I contemplated building, — he 

 gave me the general idea, I had to work out the details myself. 

 We had an old stable on the place which we tore down and 

 moved down where we wanted this, and it is built wholly on the 

 cold air — the dead air space principle. As you remember, Mr. 

 Clark's house was built with the middle space filled with char- 

 coal dust, but ours is simply cold air, dead air. We made three 

 dead air spaces, very much the same as he only that instead 

 of using one thickness of board and paper, we used cheap boards 

 and paper between, being very careful indeed to break all the 

 joints so that it would be dead air. I might say here that if any 

 of you do it, you don't want to leave it — I don't care how good 

 a carpenter you get or how good a man you have — you want to 

 oversee that part of it yourself unless you can find better men 

 than I could. They won't realize the necessity of a complete air- 

 tight space enough to do the work as it ought to be. 



Ours is built a little dififerent in one other respect than his. 

 The floor, instead of being brick and concrete, as his is, is wood. 

 We were very particular to have the underpinning fit and then 

 we used a mixture of lime and cement to point up with, and that 

 work had to be done very thoroughly indeed so that it would be 

 entirely air-tight, except that we left of course, had to leave two 



