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keep possibly a little longer, but won't sell with the Mcintosh 

 and is too small to box. The Mcintosh has all the good qual- 

 ities of the Snow apple without the imperfections. 



Mr. Erwin. What is your cold-storage system for apples ? 



Mr. Dkew. Our system is to build a cold-storage plant 

 and hold our apples in cold storage, and that is the ideal way ; 

 but the ordinary grower, as a rule, cannot afford to build a 

 complete cold-storage plant as it is certainly expensive. I 

 should either have a well-ventilated, natural cellar in which 

 to hold my fruit, or pack my very choicest fruit in the fall 

 and put it in cold storage wherever I was going to dispose of 

 it, taking it out as the market warranted. If you can't aiford 

 cold storage on your own place you must depend on the cold- 

 storage places in the larger cities. 



Mr. Erwin. We have just built a cold-storage plant under 

 the ice and brine system, similar to the one designed by Mad- 

 ison Cooper for the Massachusetts Agricultural College at 

 Amherst. Where a lot of ice is available it seems to be the 

 most economical system from a farm storage standpoint. 



Mr. Eeed. Can you prevent the fruit from sweating ? 



Mr. Drew. We prevent its sweating to a certain extent by 

 the use of calcium of chloride. If apples are not put directly 

 from sunshine into cold storage, but their temperature is 

 lowered gradually, they will not sweat. 



Mr. Truli,. Woitld you advise any one to set out a peach 

 orchard on newly plowed sod ground ? 



Mr. Drew. I would not hesitate at all, but I would not 

 let the peaches set in the sod. I see no great objection, other 

 than it is harder than planting them in soil that has been 

 cultivated for a year. 



Question. What do you call a good, thrifty Baldwin tree, 

 five years old, worth ? 



Mr. Drew. I don't know. A bulletin from the State 

 college gave the estimates by certain correspondents in all the 

 'New England States of an apple tree, forty years old, at from 

 $25 to $250, A good, thrifty Baldwin apple tree, five years 

 old, is worth $5 anywaj. 



Mr. J. L. Ellsworth. This financial question has 

 brought to my mind the fact that Mr. Russell had a very, 



