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Mr. Powell: I take a great deal of interest in this home 

 storage question and I want to make just one suggestion. 

 The State of IlHnois appropriated about $10,000 two years ago 

 to take up the question of fruit storage among other things. 

 Thev have been paying special attention to the construction of 

 these farm storage houses and the University of Illinois con- 

 structed a farm storage plant on the lines that they thought 



STORAGE HOUSE OF CHAS. L. GREEN, EAST V^^LTON. 



Mr. Green kindly furnishes the photograph and sends the, 

 following description of his storage house built in 1903. 



In reply will say the building is 30x40 feet with 12 foot posts. 

 We dug the cellar out of a steep, hard gravel bank with end 

 to the south. This permits the team to back the apples into 

 cellar without unloading. The walks of the cellar are built 

 of quarried granite laid solid in cement. 



The underpinning is of granite pinners laid in Portland cement 

 and lined with brick. This gives me a cellar three barrels high 

 and will hold 1,000 barrels or that amount in bulk. I store 

 them the latter way. 



The building is sheathed on outside with matched hemlock, 

 thick sheathing paper outside of that then clapboards and paint. 

 The inside is sheathed 8 feet high also overhead. We then set 

 another course of studding clear round and sheathed again. 

 This gives two dead air spaces and three matched sheathings 

 besides paper, clapboards and paint. The floor between this 

 room and cellar is double with hemlock for under course and 

 matched beech on top and heavy paper between. This room as 

 well as cellar has double doors and windows with matched 

 board blinds inside of windows. This room will hold 1,050 

 barrels with some room to spare. The attic has room for per- 

 haps 1,200 empty barrels. This makes a very handy arrange- 

 ment for an apple store house. The cost of this building is 

 about $1,200. 



