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ble to construct a building' large enough to hold other things, 

 vegetables, say, in conjunction with the fruit, so that you 

 could store everything that you raised, beets and onions and 

 parsnips and cabbages, in the same building? 



Professor Sears. That would depend altogether on the 

 circumstances. If a neighborhood were growing all these dif- 

 ferent things and were keeping them there I think it would 

 be very desirable to have them provided for in the building. 

 We have both in our storage building, but there is only one 

 door between the two compartments and that is kept locked. 

 Care must be taken that the odors don't get from the vege- 

 tables into the fruit compartment. This is a danger which 

 can be easily avoided, and I think it is a very satisfactory 

 arrangement, because you can put up your vegetable storage 

 a good deal cheaper if you combine the two than by making- 

 it a separate storage. 



Mr. John P. Bowditcji. How much would the invest- 

 ment be to build such a cold-storage plant as the one you 

 have described? 



Professor Seaks. The figures I mentioned run all the way 

 from $1.50 to $5 per barrel capacity of the storage; and the 

 general opinion seems to be that about $2.50 is the average 

 cost per barrel. Perhaps if you strike an average of about 

 $3 per barrel you will have it, so that if you want to put up 

 a 1,000-baiTel plant it will cost you, complete, about $3,000. 



Mr. Tx. H. Race. 1 had an old ice chute on my farm. It 

 was IG feet long and 20 inches wide inside, of 1%-inch 

 oak slats, 3 inches wide, bolted to cross slats, the bolts being- 

 set in so that they wouldn't interfere with the ice. The idea 

 came to me that this could be used in putting barrels of 

 apples into the cellar. I cut a square piece out of an old 

 bran sack, slipped it over the barrel and drew it up with an 

 old strap below the two top hoops, so they wouldn't break 

 open when they were sliding down. I then got two pairs of 

 ice tongs and gave one to each man, and they carried the 

 apples in there just as fast as they could slide them down. 

 It was a very simple arrangement, and I put in 200 barrels 

 of apples in short order. There was no inconvenience, dis- 



