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open windows to let in air or the floor would rot out 

 in a very short time, and also as I have used it since to get vent- 

 ilation. Overhead ours is simply double-boarded on the flooring 

 with paper between, and then at the same time, whenever wt 

 have stored apples we have had a small quantity of hay up there 

 — we use it partly to store hay but mainly for the storage of 

 barrels, but we intend to have a little hay there. We thought we 

 could do that cheaper than we could put in three air spaces as 

 we did on the sides. We used this house, we put in our first 

 apples in 1895. We have used it more or less every year since, 

 and for a cheap building that any one can construct I don't know 

 of anything that equals it. It seems to me from the experience 

 that I have had, that it isn't so much the cold air as it is the even 

 temperature that keeps the apples. Now we put our apples in 

 there, and whoever we have sold to, and whoever has packed 

 them, whether it was in November or February, has without 

 one exception said that they never have seen apples that 

 kept so perfectly as they did in that house. I sold one year when 

 we had a very small crop sixty barrels to a man and he took 

 twenty of them out Thanksgiving time and the rest he wanted I 

 should keep, he thought, till Christmas. Well, they finally stayed 

 there until the loth of February. They were just three months 

 from the day they were sorted. They kept so well that he didn't 

 sort them at all. They shrunk a little, he filled the barrels and 

 shipped them just as they were without any sorting at all. 



Q. About the ice, Mr. Morse, how did you arrange to store 

 ice? 



A. I didn't use any ice. I neglected to make that point. 

 Mine is simply a storage house, not cold storage, the cheapest 

 way possible. 



Q. I would ask the speaker how much shrinkage there would 

 be? 



A. I think they took about two bushels to fill the forty barrels 

 full enough for foreign shipment, if I remember right. That 

 was five or six years ago, but I am sure that was about the 

 amount they used. 



O. You put them in barrels? 



A. Yes, sir, usuall^^ but I found three years ago we had 

 nearly 700 barrels that year and the house was only supposed to 

 hold 600 barrels as they are set in, just as they set them in in 



