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Mr. Ukew. Our system is to hold our apples in our own 

 cold-storage plant, and that is the ideal way ; but the ordi- 

 narj^ grower, as a rule, cannot afford to build a complete cold- 

 storage plant, as it is certainly expensive. I should either 

 have a well-ventilated, natural cellar in which to hold my 

 fruit, or pack my very choicest fruit in the fall and put it in 

 cold storage wherever I "was going to dispose of it, taking it 

 out as the market warranted. If you can't afford cold storage 

 on your own place you must depend on the cold-storage places 

 in the larger cities. 



]\[r. Erwix. We have just built a cold-storage plant under 

 the ice and brine system, similar to the one designed by Mad- 

 ison Cooper for the Massachusetts Agricultural College at 

 Amherst. Where a lot of ice is available it seems to be the 

 most economical system from a farm storage standpoint. 



Mr. Reed. Can you prevent the fruit from sweating ? 



Mr. Dkew. We prevent its sweating to a certain extent by 

 the use of calciimi of chloride. If apples are not put directly 

 from sunshine into cold storage, but their temperature is 

 lowered gradually, they will not sweat. 



Mr. Trull. Would you advise any one to set out a peach 

 orchard on newly plowed sod ground ? 



Mr. Drew. I would not hesitate at all, but I would not 

 let the peaches set in the sod. I see no gi'eat objection, other 

 than that it is harder than planting them in soil that has been 

 cultivated for a year. 



Question. What do you call a good, thrifty Baldwin tree, 

 five years old, worth ? 



Mr. Drew. I don't know. A bulletin from the State col- 

 lege gave the estimates by certain correspondents in all the 

 N^ew England States of an apple tree, forty years old, at from 

 $25 to $250. A good, thrifty Baldwin apple tree, five years 

 old, is worth $5 any way. 



Mr. J. L. EuLswoRTir. This financial question has brought 

 to my mind the fact that Mr. Russell had a very, very pro- 

 ductive tree last year — a very profitable tree. He won the 

 prize that was offered by the Board of x\griculture last year 

 for the most productive tree. There is no reason why you all 

 shoidd not have just such trees, — 30 to the acre. 



