136 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



banked up so as to carry surface water away from the 

 walls. Inside the walls were covered with inch oak 

 boards, and the bins constructed as indicated in the 

 drawings. 



The entry-way to the cellar is wide enough to ad- 

 mit of backing a horse-cart or wagon down into the 

 cellar so as to unload directly from it. This is a mat- 

 ter of much convenience to the workmen. The width 

 of the cellar floor will allow of a row of barrels being 

 placed in front of the bins and yet admit the vehicle. 



With stone or brick walls the bins would need to 

 be separated from the outer wall by putting up an 

 inner wall of boards nailed to studding, thus giving 

 an air space between the bins and the outer wall. 



A series of observations on the range of tempera- 

 ture in the cellar was made during November, Decem- 

 ber, January, and part of February, 1894, and the 

 results are summarized below. The ventilator and the 

 air flue were all left open from November ist to De- 

 cember loth. The outside air temperature was 28° 

 on the morning of November ist, and the cellar showed 

 a temperature of 46°. As the month progressed a 

 period of warm weather set in, without a drop to freez- 

 ing, from the 7th until the 24th of the month. During 

 this time the temperature often registered above 60° 

 in the shade, with maximum readings considerably 

 higher. The cellar temperature varied just 12° for 

 the entire month, reaching 58° on two occasions, but 

 closing the month at 46°, with outside temperature 



at 34°. 



During December the cellar temperature was re- 

 duced quite steadily from 45° to 38°, the daily varia- 



