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3. Fruit in home cold storage can have the constant personal 

 care of the owner. He can examine it when he wishes and sort when 

 necessary; he can sell it by the bushel or barrel in a week or a 

 month and pay no extra storage fee. 



4. Should the commodity deteriorate in quality, or the price 

 fail to advance, the owner is out nothing for transportation and little 

 for storage. 



On the other hand city cold storage by farmers has several 

 advantages which, to the commercial grower, are very important: 



1. It is nearer the market, where it can be disposed of on the 

 shortest notice. This enables the holder to take advantage of a 

 sudden turn in price for the better. By use of the telephone or tele- 

 graph he can dispose of his whole crop in a few minutes. 



2. By storing in city warehouses, fruit does not usually have 

 to be shipped after it has been in storage. Shipping after storage is 

 an injurious process and should be avoided. But if it must be done, 

 the facilities for loading in the large warehouses are such that the 

 fruit need not undergo change of temperature or injury. Adjoining 

 the storage rooms are loading sheds which are kept very cool. The 

 refrigerator cars in which the fruit is to be shipped are run into the 

 sheds and the fruit is taken from the storage room directly into the 

 cars, which are already cooled to a low temperature. 



3. Fruit in city warehouses is practically on exhibition all the 

 time, and if it is of superior quality it is a standing advertisement 

 for the owner. Buyers find out to whom to look for such fruit. Com- 

 mercial reputation and standing is no small thing in these pushing 

 times. A man must not only grow fruit of first quality, he must 

 make it known that he grows it. He will profit by storing it where 

 buyers can find it. (Kan. Ag. Col. Bui. 84.) 



FARM IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY. 



Historical. The most prominent feature in the development 

 of American agriculture is the immense improvement that has taken 

 place in agricultural methods and machines indeed, the word im- 

 provement is not adequate to express the change that has taken place 

 in the methods of agriculture in this country, because the implements 

 and machines are creations rather than improvements, and their mis- 

 sion has been radical and far-reaching. They have reduced the 

 amount of human labor required to produce a given quantity of crops 

 and to cultivate given areas of land, and they have been largely, if 

 not chiefly, instrumental in converting local markets into world 

 markets for the principal cereals, cotton, tobacco, and animal and 

 dairy products. 



A technical description of these implements and machines can 

 not be attempted and it will be sufficient merely to indicate generally 

 changes in their character and in the results of their work. De- 

 pendence must be placed upon the reader's knowledge of these ma- 

 chines and upon his mechanical mind to understand how and why 

 they have contributed so much to the realization of the present agri- 

 cultural era. 



