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comfort or damage to either the apples or to the men, and 

 when we took the apples out I used the same device; I took 

 a pair of ice tongs, put a rope through one handle and 

 attached it to the other. I slipped the tongs over the head 

 of the barrel and hitched a horse on with just the right length 

 rope ; out came the barrel without bruising anybody's fingers. 

 This is a very simple device which I just stumbled onto and 

 thought I would give it to you. 



Mr. G. D. FoERESTALL. Apples will stand a much lower 

 temperature if wrapped in paper than they will without it, 

 and will keep better. I speak of this for home use, as we 

 cannot all have cold storage. 



Mr. Wheelek. I think the question in regard to com- 

 bining storage that will take in fruits and vegetables is 

 worthy of further discussion. I have often seen the time 

 when asparagus, held back for three or four days, would 

 bring double what it does when there is a glut in the market, 

 and I believe we should have a central storage plant wher- 

 ever there is a large enough crop in any section to warrant 

 it. I think these central storage plants should be constructed 

 and perhaps run by the farmers themselves. I believe it 

 is perfectly feasible to use the same one for both fruits and 

 vegetables, and I think that farmers should co-operatively 

 build just such storage plants. 



Mr. J. J. Erwin. Would such a cold-storage plant be 

 suitable for keeping milk ? 



Professor Sears. We haven't used it for milk. I don't 

 see any reason why it shouldn't, though. It is all right for 

 anything that wants cold. I don't see why there should be 

 the slightest objection to storing asparagus in the small room, 

 as there is no oifensive odor. 



Secretary Ellsworth. I think that the farm which is 

 doing a considerable business in a variety of crops can well 

 afford to have a cold-storage plant. There are times in the 

 summer when there seems to be a glut of certain varieties of 

 vegetables, like tomatoes, cucumbers or asparagus, when if 

 they could be held for a few days the farmer could get a 

 great increase in the price. And as for apples, Gravensteins 



