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ing the fruit crop over gluts, and especially of hold- 

 ing the market from western competition. This 

 would no doubt prove to he a very useful method 

 for the north for the late fall and winter fruit, 

 but it would probably not be practicable for the 

 south, or for holding the summer fruits. "If, there- 

 fore," he writes, "every neighborhood in western New 

 York had a cold-storage house for barreled apples, 

 that would protect against frost and hold anywhere 

 from ten thousand to twenty thousand barrels, run, 

 if need be, on the same cooperative principles and 

 methods as the cheese factories of this state, or the 

 fruit associations of California or Michigan, would 

 not the result be very much more satisfactory to 

 the grower than present methods? * * * * * 

 Such a building may be of moderate cost and yet 

 substantial and durable, and need not always be 

 located at the nearest railroad. How many have 

 ever figured or thought of the cost to the grower 

 of transporting his apples to the railroad or canal 

 station from his farm during the months of Sep- 

 tember or October, when there is much work to do 

 and time is of most value ? Say that the grower 

 is five or eight miles from said station. I believe 

 that for less cost per barrel the dealer located in 

 western New York will deliver the same apples in 

 barrels at Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth, Philadelphia, 

 New York, or Boston. There are quite a number of 

 apple houses in western New York owned by dealers, 

 but there are few that were built for the express pur- 

 pose of safely storing apples. I have a building that 



