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room being of prime importance, the floor should be 

 cemented whenever existing conditions permit. Of 

 course, ample provision has to be made for thorough 

 drainage, ventilation and circulation of air. Several 

 devices for the accomplishment of this have been 

 patented, and an excellent non- patented plan is 

 minutely described and illustrated in Theron L. Miles' 

 hook on the 'Ice Crop.' The general construction of 

 the walls, roof, ventilation, etc., of such a storage 

 house does not differ materially from that of ordinary 

 ice houses. If the storage house is used much during 

 hot weather, the greater part of the ice will probably 

 have melted before the fall fruit comes in. It will 

 therefore be necessary to have a reserve ice house 

 near by, from which the storage house can be re- 

 plenished." 



The requisites for keeping grapes during the 

 winter are given as follows by George C. Snow:* 

 "Any good building in which the temperature can be 

 held even at about 35, with ventilation as may be 

 required, this to be determined by noting how the 

 fruit is keeping, will be found available for grapes. 

 No positive rules can be laid down. A cooling room, 

 in which the fruit can be first cooled, is a necessity. 

 If placed directly in cold storage, the temperature will 

 be found to be raised rapidly by placing a quantity 

 of warm fruit in the room. As even a temperature 

 as possible is much the best. Grapes should not be 

 packed in baskets for shipping before being stored. 

 They should be ripe, as grapes do not mature after 



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