Aflrice Abonf Morirtf} Fruits. 435 



STORING FRUITS. 



It is impossible to draw the line between a 

 packing -house and a storage -house. In fact, the 

 same structure may be used for both purposes, as 

 the grape house is which has been described in 

 'he preceding pages. There is more and more 

 necessity that the fruit-grower should provide the 

 means of storing fruits, when prices are low and 

 competition is very sharp. 



General advice. As a rule, it 'will not pay the 

 fruit-grower to build iced storage or chemical store- 

 houses for his fruit, unless he has a very large 

 acreage. This cold-storage of fruit is really a busi- 

 ness by itself, and ivqniivs a great deal of care 

 and skill to carry it through successfully, and a 

 discussion of it is foreign to the purpose of this 

 book. If the grower desires to keep his produce 

 until late winter or spring, and has no cellars or 

 naiural storage place, it will ordinarily pay him 

 Ix-st to put it into some commercial cold-storage 

 house, and to pay so much per package for the 

 storing of it. 



For temporary storage, however, these remarks 

 will not apply. Every person who grows fruits, 

 especially perishable kinds, should have some kind of 

 a building in which he may place the fruits over 

 night, or for two or three days, when waiting for 

 the market to improve, or for the purpose of cool- 

 ing them down before shipment. These houses are 

 ordinarily cooled merely by cold air. They are often 



