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l)arrels, three tiers high. We found when they were about half 

 picked that the house was not going to hold the apples that we 

 had, so instead of putting them in the barrels, we had them set 

 up clear across the back side of the house, then left a space per- 

 haps five feet wide inside, up two tiers with my barrels, and put 

 them over in behind. We did that in two different places so that 

 when we had the house full there were two bins running clear 

 across this building 23 feet, with the apples perhaps five or six 

 feet deep in these bins, and I found when we came to take these 

 apples out — wdien we commenced to pick it was very warm 

 weather indeed and we picked from 50 to 100 barrels a day — and 

 this brings me to a point I forgot to mention. In building this, 

 it is built simply with a door in the south end. I didn't have any 

 door to drive through — I think Mr. Clark's has a door in each 

 end — but there is a door in the south end and a window in the 

 south corner, and another in the southwest corner, so it makes 

 that corner light enough for packing purposes ; but in setting in 

 so many of those apples in the barrels and picked in such warm 

 weather, I found they were very slow in cooling oft'. When we 

 came to take them out the apples that were put in first, they 

 showed the effect of the warmth a great deal more than those 

 that were picked later, so last year and this I have used a large 

 bin running clear across the building with the boards put apart 

 an inch or so, so as to give a chance, and also build up from the 

 floor a little, so as to give a circulation of air in there around 

 this bin. And I cut a hole through the floor back of it, so I got 

 a draft of air through the floor back of the bin and so through 

 the apples, and in that way it cools them off more readily. And 

 if I w-ere to build another — as soon as I can get to it I intend to 

 do it — a year ago this summer if my health hadn't failed me I 

 should have bought this round tiling about a foot in diameter and 

 laid two rows of that off through the ground perhaps thirty feet, 

 and had that come up on the back side of the building so as to 

 get a cool draft of air to come up from the ground to a depth 

 that would have cooled the air as it came in. I have a stairway 

 that goes up into the upstairs from the main part of the build- 

 ing, which I can push up or down according as I want it, close 

 it up or not. So when I want to open it, with that open, and the 

 ventilator up chamber, and this ventilation that I intend to put 

 in — I have now a hole cut in the floor which makes some — I 



