HARVESTING, MARKETING AND STORING FRUIT. 147 



he has to look after his harvesting and marketing at the same 

 time, which is apt to crowd him and his facilities to his disad- 

 vantage. Of course, in order to store fruit properly, the grower 

 must study the keeping quality of his product and be equipped 

 with cool storage so that he can hold it for at least a few weeks. 

 Such facilities are an incentive to the grower to give extra at- 

 tention to the fruit he raises, as only good fruit can be stored 

 to advantage. The inferior fruit, if to be marketed at all, 

 should generally be disposed of early. 



Cold storage apparatus of the modern improved form is too 

 expensive for general use by individual fruit growers and it 



Fig. 72. —Kansas Cold Storage House; longitudinal section. 

 Is a question whether it is not usually best, when fruit is to 

 be stored for a considerable time, for the grower to patronize 

 the owners of cold storage plants rather than build for his own 

 use or, better yet, co-operate with others and erect a large, 

 modern, fruit storage building. 



Cooling rooms adapted to the storage of small fruit and 

 other quickly perishable products, even for a short time, could 

 be used to advantage on every fruit farm. These need not be 

 expensive and often an old building may be refitted and made 



