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MODERN FRUIT MARKETING 



Fig. 79. LOCAL COLD STORAGE 



the shipping point for the surrounding country. They 

 are often associated with packing-houses, the fruit be- 

 ing brought to the central house to pack and then im- 

 mediately transferred to storage. Later, as the season 

 advances, the fruit is re-distributed to the larger centers 

 of population. Some of these houses are used only for 

 temporary storages, simply to hold the fruit for a short 

 time until it can be properly marketed. Occasionally 

 the fruit goes from these local storage houses to the 

 larger public storages in the centers of population. 



Public Storages. By far, the most expensive and 

 most important part of the storage industry is the large 

 storage houses in the big cities. These are used not only 

 for storage of fruit but also for the storing of meat 

 products, vegetables, eggs, etc., and in most large cities 

 for the storing of furs to keep during the hot weather 

 of the summer. These fill a very desirable and necessary 

 place in the economy of food supply, especially in the 



