438 The Principles of Fruit -growing. 



was built for the storage of nursery stock, and in which 

 I have had apples stored all winter. It is frost- 

 proof, built on a heavy stone wall twenty -four inches 

 thick and three feet high. On this wall were set up 

 two by four scantling ; these were sheathed with inch 

 hemlock, then covered with tarred building paper, 

 then furred out with strips four inches deep, and 

 again covered as before, until the wall has three air 

 spaces. The roof is constructed in the same way to 

 protect against frost. Light and ventilation come 

 from two rows of windows at the top. The roof is 

 gravel. The outside is covered with novelty siding. 

 The building has double or two sets of doors at each 

 end, and a driveway through the center. It is 

 painted inside and out, is one hundred feet long by 

 forty feet wide, the whole cost was $1,400, and it 

 would afford storage for ten thousand barrels. The 

 atmosphere is the same inside as out, only that the 

 building is frost -proof and can be run in the winter 

 months with a variation of not over 12; there is no 

 smell of a cellar whatever, and stock always keeps 

 perfectly. Such a house, or a better one, in a neigh- 

 borhood, would pay four years out of five, at least 

 50 cents per barrel over all cost of labor for han- 

 dling, sorting, insurance, etc., and this year where 

 there were apples, it would have paid $1 to $1.50 per 

 barrel." 



Requisites for domestic storage. The home storage 

 establishment is generally either a cellar or a half- 

 cellar, although, by taking particular pains in the 

 construction of air spaces, a building entirely above 



