FRUIT STORAGE 



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floor of the building are proof against frost in the 

 coldest weather, and altogether this warehouse is 

 admirably adapted to the purpose for which it was 

 built, and has proved invaluable to shippers. 



XIII. MR. T. B. WILSON'S HOUSE 



The house herewith illustrated and described is the 

 property of Mr. T. B. Wilson, of Hall's Corners, 

 Ontario County, N. Y. The following details regard- 



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FIG. 46 — MR. 



WILSON S HOUSE 



ing the construction and operation of the house are 

 taken from an account published by Mr. S. A. Beach 

 (Rural New Yorker, September i, 1897). 



The fruit is received b}- the door which opens on 

 the first floor at the front of the building at a con- 

 venient hight for unloading apples from wagons. The 

 rear door of the same floor opens above the railroad 

 siding at a hight of about 13 feet. From this door 

 the barrels are run over a slide directly into the car. 

 When barrels that are in the cellar are to be shipped 



