128 KRI'IT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



The fruit is picked and sorted into barrels if there 

 is sufficient help at picking time. The sorting is done 

 on a sorting table kept out in the orchard. When, as 

 sometimes happens, enough help can not be secured, 

 the apples are only partially sorted or not sorted at 

 all. They are put into the barrels and are taken to 

 the storage house, where sorting follows during rainy 

 weather. When the apples are finally carefully 

 sorted they are put into barrels without heads, and 

 are set away in the storage rooms, where they are left 

 undisturbed till shipping time. In case of unusual 

 developments of scab or other troubles, especially if 

 rotting occurs, the fruit may be resorted during the 

 period of storage. At any rate, the final sorting and 

 grading is done at the time of shipment. 



X. A CANADIAN FRUIT HOUSE 



One of the most satisfactory- storage houses of 

 medium size which has yet come under my obsen,^a- 

 tion is the one owned by Mr. J. M. Fisk, of Abbots- 

 ford, Quebec. This is a frame building, 30 x 20 feet 

 outside. It is built with 8-foot posts, and double 

 boarded with i-inch hemlock. This hemlock siding is 

 laid in two thicknesses with the tar paper between. 

 The whole is roofed with cedar shingles. 



There is a cellar or basement under the whole 

 house, which doubles its capacity. The cellar wall is 

 of stone and mortar, 6 feet high and 2 feet thick. At 

 the lower end it rises 3 feet above the surface of the 

 ground; at the upper end, about i foot. The cellar 

 is effectively tile drained, is furnished with a good 

 cemented bottom, is lighted by three windows, with 



