36 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



nature. Both are made to sit directly upon an ordinary 

 cook stove or kitchen range, and to take their heat 

 from that source. Such machines will dry from one 

 to two bushels of green fruit a day. The capacities 

 of the larger as well as of the smaller evaporators may 

 be judged from the following figures, taken from the 

 circular of the Vermont Farm Machine Co. : 



Size Capacity. 



^^''■>'^ Inches Bushels per day 



ofgrcenjfuit, 



No. o* 5 20 X 20 I to 2 



No. GO* 6 20 X 24 2 to 3 



No. I 7 22 X 28 3 to 4 



No. 2 10 22 X 31 6 to 8 



No. 3 13 22x34 12 to 16 



No. 33^ 13 30-^34 16 to 22 



No. 4 15 30x48 30 to 40 



No. 5 18 30x54 50 to 60 



The prices of these machines range from $15 for 

 No. o to $175 for the No. 5. These may be taken as 

 representative of the prices charged by other manu- 

 facturers for similar apparatus. 



The more elaborate machines are built on the same 

 general principles as the smaller ones, except that they 

 are provided with their own furnaces. Figure 6 

 shows a typical machine of the larger sort. This 

 particular machine is rated to evaporate eighteen to 

 twenty-five bushels of apples in twenty-four hours. 



The general manipulation of the small evaporators 

 is fairly simple, and they are not subject to accidents 

 or serious difficulties. The following directions given 

 by the manufacturers for the management of one of 

 the smaller machines will apply to nearly all others, 



* No furnace ; used on kitchen stove. 



