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building. And there have been a number of years when we have 

 obtained from 25 cents to 50 cents per barrel more for our 

 apples by holding them awhile. And as the shrinkage has been 

 almost nothing the income from the orchard has been very much 

 greater. Our orchard has outgrown the house, and we have 

 felt so well satisfied with the working of it, that we have com- 

 menced on another and larger room on about the same principle. 



Dr. TwiTCHELL : Mr, Morse, do you put these in in bulk or 

 in barrels ? 



Mr. Morse : Both ways. For the last three years we have 

 put part of them in bins and part in barrels. I think perhaps 

 they keep fully as well in the bin. We leave spaces between 

 each board and that gives a little more chance for the air to 

 circulate. 



Question : On the bottom as well as the sides ? 



Mr. Morse : Yes, but of course as soon as the weather gets 

 cold enough so that the room is cooled down, then we shut it up 

 and there is no ventilation at all any way — it is air-tight — and 

 we keep the dead air in that all winter. I may say right here 

 that this building is a mile and a half away from home. This 

 of course is a disadvantage as far as cooling it is concerned. If 

 we had it at home, when it was cool we could go out and open 

 all the ventilators and then in the morning close them, and thus 

 cool it ofif better. Still it is really as nearly perfect in my mind 

 as anything need to be in that way. 



Dr. Twitchele: What is the size of your building? 



Mr. Morse : The outside of the building is 26 x 30, and the 

 capacity set in in the barrel is about 600 barrels. In 1900 by 

 putting them in in bins we put in enough so that we packed out 

 600 barrels of marketable apples from it. 



Question: Do you put in any artificial heat, stove or any- 

 thing of that kind ? 



Mr. Morse : No, it isn't fitted for that, only as we have put 

 in a lamp or something of that kind when it hadn't been shut 

 up properly and got a httle colder than it ought to be. Apples 

 have been in there when it was 25 below zero and come out all 

 right. In all the years we have used it we never have lost a 

 peck of apples from freezing. We found a few two or three 

 times when we were packing that were chilled a little, but by 

 picking them up without touching them with our hands so as 

 to spot them the frost would come out. 



