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without nny loss. Taken out of the house in moist weather, the 

 papers, on lemons especially, become very wet; and should have the 

 papers dried or renewed. If warmed in an air-tight room before 

 shipment, this evil may be in a great measure prevented. 



Butter and eggs imbibe rapidly foreign impurities, and must not be 

 left exposed in the midst of fruits and vegetables. Butter, in confined 

 firkins, is not injured where fruit is, and both butter and eggs keep well 

 in a chamber by themselves. 



COST OF RUNNING THE HOUSE. 



One and a half barrels of waste bittern, costing from $3 to $5 per 

 barrel, are sufficient for one thousand bushels of fruit per year. In a 

 house holding 7,000 bushels of fruit, the cost per year would be as fol- 

 lows, present prices of labor and materials being understood : 



Eleven barrels of absorbent, $50 00 



Cost of drying it every two months — 36 days in all, 72 00 



Five cords of wood, 25 00 



Sheet iron pans, 8 00 



Total cost, $155 00 



SOURCES OF PROFIT. 



The sources of profit are pears and grapes, kept during the fall and 

 winter months; apples until the months of INIay, June and July; lemons, 

 oranges, pineapples, through the summer season. Oysters, butter and 

 eggs are also sources of profit. 



FLAVOR. 



Apples, as well as other fruits, from the house, arc in the spring and 

 summer unusually heavy, juicy, and rich in flavor. The reason is, that 

 evaporation goes on very slowly at 34°, and gives time for the more 

 complete sepai'ation of the atoms of water from those of the sugar con- 

 tained in the fruit. A larger 2">roportion of water and less proportion of 

 the aroma of the fruit escapes than when the temperature is higher and 

 the evaporation more rapid. 



KEEPING OF FRUIT OUT OF THE HOUSE. 



Fruit, such as apples, taken from the house in July, compares well in 

 keeping qualities with the early summer crop. The period of keeping 

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