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to hold the apples in the box tog-ether more snugly. 

 Though every person has not the gift for the making 

 of a good apple packer, most of them after a careful 

 reading- of the above can after more or less practice 

 succeed in packing neatly and rapidly. But remem- 

 ber practice makes perfect. In box apple packing 

 rapidity and perfection do not go hand in hand. 



Apple Storage 



The storage of apples presents one of the largest 

 factors in the modern apple business, because the. 

 bulk of the trade is with winter fruit, which is, 

 always stored for a greater or less period. Even 

 from the first there has been some storage. In olden 

 days apples used to be stored in piles in the orchard, 

 in pits in the ground, in bulk in the hay mow, in bins 

 in the cellar, and in various other ways. Nearly all 

 of these old-fashioned ways are still practiced to 

 some extent, although they have very little influence 

 on the modern apple business. 



Following these crude methods of storage there 

 came into practice a few years ago different methods 

 of handling apples in specially made storage houses. 

 At the beginning these were seldom cr never sup- 

 plied with artificial refrigeration. The theory of 

 construction was simply to provide a well insulated 

 wall and then to cool down the storage chamber by 

 ventilation. Such houses or storage compartments 

 are no wall classed together under the name "com- 

 mon storage." "Common storage" is distinguished 

 from "cold storage," the latter referring to such 

 houses or chambers as are supplied with artificial 

 refrigeration. 



There has been a strong tendency in the last few 

 years to do away with the common storage tn favor 

 of the genuine cold storage. Great improvements 

 have undoubtedly been made in the process of cold 



