52 STAT^ POMOLOGICAI. S0CIE;TY. 



STORAGE OF FRUIT AND INSPECTION. 



HOME STORAGE RESULTS. 

 F. H. Morse of Waterford. 



This subject is one that is altogether too large for me to 

 handle, but as I have had a little experience along this line which 

 has been to the advantage of my own pocketbook, there may be 

 those here who would like the advantage of that experience. 



After twenty years experience in picking, storing and market- 

 ing apples — ten years without any special place for storing them 

 and ten years with storage house built for the purpose, I am fully 

 convinced that every orchard should be provided with some 

 sort of storage room. 



Under favorable circumstances some cooperative plan might 

 be used to advantage. But as many of us are situated, as in 

 our own case with no other large orchards near by, we have 

 found that home storage can be used to great advantage. 



Anyone who has helped to harvest the apples from an orchard 

 of any size knows that with the present scarcity of help, a place 

 very near where they can be safely stored until wanted for 

 market, must be of great value. When we decided we needed 

 such a building it was very hard to decide how it should be built. 

 I saw in Thomas's Fruit Book a description of one built with two 

 partitions and sawdust packings — as some ice houses are built. 

 But after going to see two or three fruit houses and consulting 

 several of our best orchardists, we decided to build on the dead- 

 air principle. 



Our house is built with four air-tight partitions, making 

 three dead-air spaces on all sides. These were made by two 

 thicknesses of boards with sheathing paper between. The out- 

 side and inside of the buildings are of sheathing boards, all the 

 other parts are made of the very cheapest materials. The work 

 needs to be very carefully done, as upon the tightness of these 

 partitions depends the success of the building. We have two 

 double windows fitted with shutters outside and in. For com- 

 mon use we have an ordinary door large enough to back our 



