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Professor Sears. That is a point which, I neglected to 

 touch upon. It is the practicable solution of this question, 

 where you have a neighborhood with a common interest. 

 When in any section there are a number of men interested, 

 we ought to get some type of storage plant started. It is 

 only the large gi'owers who can afford to establish such a 

 plant individually. 



Mr. Wilfrid Wheeler. I would like to inquire about 

 a style of storage which I think is of importance. This is 

 what you might call ordinary ice-house storage. There 

 are several modifications of this, and the most common one 

 that I have in mind is where the ice chamber is high up in 

 the air and a good-sized room is located directly under it; 

 there is another type where the storage room is built inside 

 the ice house and ice packed all around it. I have several 

 of these types in mind, and I think they make a fairly good 

 sort of storage. I would like to ask Professor Sears what 

 he thinks of that type of house. 



Professor Sears. Mr. Chairman, I am glad that Mr. 

 Wheeler raised that question. I had a little personal ex- 

 perience with one, the type where you have ice storage over- 

 head. I think it is all right and will give pretty good storage 

 facilities; but from my experience, which is rather limited, 

 it is rather hard on the ice supply. We had one at the college 

 and the ice usually gave out about the time we needed it the 

 most. If a man had a better type of building and more ice 

 he would get around that difiiculty. I think it is a little 

 wasteful of ice, but there is no question about its being effi- 

 cient if you have a good building, and I presume that if one 

 had his own ice pond, and the ice wasn't costing much, it 

 would be very satisfactory. 



Mr. Wheeler. Would you break up the ice in the tank 

 of your storage house or just put in the whole cake ? 



Professor Sears. Break it up ; this has to be done in order 

 to get the salt in through the ice and produce the proper 

 amount of cold. 



Mr. Wheeler. Is the temperature lower when the apples 

 are in barrels than when they are loose ? Will they freeze 

 quicker loose than in barrels ? 



