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12 foot posts upon the sills. It also has a cellar or 

 lower story dug out of a gravel bank and facing 

 toward the south. There is a large door to this base- 

 ment story so that a load of apples can be backed in 

 without unloading. The cellar walls are built of 

 quarried granite laid solid in cement. The underpin- 

 ning is of granite laid in Portland cement and lined 

 with brick . The basement will hold one thousand 

 barrels, and the first floor will hold approximately 

 the same amount. 



The building is sheathed on the outside with 

 matched hemlock covered with thick sheathing paper 

 and this in turn covered with clapboards and well 

 painted. The studding were also sheathed again 

 inside and then a new course of studding set around 

 inside of the first and sheathed again. This gives two 

 dead air spaces and three matched sheathings besides 

 the paper, clapboards and paint. The floor between 

 the storage room and cellar is double, with hemlock 

 for the under course and matched birch on top with 

 heavy paper between. Both storage rooms have 

 double doors and windows with matched board 

 blinds inside. There is an attic room which will 

 accommodate twelve hundred empty barrels. The 

 building cost twelve hundred dollars. 



Another very excellent building for the common 

 storage of apples which has been frequently described 

 and which is certainly a model of its kind is that 

 shown in figure 8, and owned by Mr. T. L. Kinney, 

 South Hero, Vermont. This house was built in 1888 

 and stands 30x50 feet on the ground. It has a base- 

 ment which will accommodate 1,000 barrels, and the 

 main floor will receive an equal number. There is 

 an attic for the storage of empty barrels, cooper's 

 stock, etc. The walls are constructed in the follow- 

 ing manner: The studding are 3x4 inches. On the 

 outside is a course of one-inch matched pine covered 



