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THE GENESEE FARMER 



satisfied that we have at last ascertained the proper location for a fruit room ; namely, a cool upper 

 apartment, with lined nou-couducting walls. M. P. W. 



Description and Plans of Me. Moorman's Fruit Room. — The room was not originally constructed 

 for a fruit room ; but, by a little adaptation, Mr. Moorman has succeeded in rendering it a most excel- 

 lent one, as is proved by the prizes awarded for the productions exhibited from it, — not in any one 

 year, but repeatedly, year after year. It is a partitioned-otf j)ortion of a loft which extends over a 

 coach-house and stables, and is that part which is above the coach-house. It was originally fitted up 

 for a harness room, the walls, as is usual in such places, being lined with wood. The roof is slated. 

 The range of building is detached, and faces the southwest. 



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Fig. 1. PLAN OF MK. Moorman's fkutt room. 



It will be observed that there is a cavity, c, between the boarding and walls. Tliis, I believe, is an 

 important circumstance, and so is the wooden lining, because air and wood are known to be slow 

 conductors of heat. The ceiling on the north side is double, and the floor is wood above a ceiling 

 We may therefore conclude that a uni- 



formity of temperature in the interior 

 of the r(jom is insured to a considerable 

 extent. There is a small stove, d, but 

 it is seldom used, and never with the 

 view of warming the air of the room, 

 unless the temperature is actually below 

 freezing. The fruit is therefore kept 

 cool. The swing-window, e, is occa- 

 sionally a little opened ; but it is at all 

 times covered with a roller-blind, so 

 that the fruit is kept in the dark. A 

 little fire in the stove, air being freely 

 admitted by the window at the same 

 time in a dry day, is useful for speedily 

 removing any damp which may arise 

 from the fruit The shelves, a, a, have 

 a layer of clean-drawn straw laid across 

 them ; on this the fruit is placed singly. 



From a consideration of all the above 

 details it may be inferred, that if a fruit 

 room be built over a place where there 

 is a free circulation of air, its roof double 

 ceiled, the walls lined with wood, a cav- 

 ity being left between these two, it will possess the essential properties of the one under consideration. 



The more important principles necessary to attend to, with regard to the long keeping of fiuit, are 



Fig. 2. INTERIOR VIEW. 



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