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apples, and in these neighborhoods storage houses 

 ha\e been found ^'ery useful, The following notes of 

 conditions and experience in West Virginia are made 

 chiefly from information furnished bj^ Professors L. C. 

 Corbett and K. C. Davis. 



There are in Hancock County six or seven houses 

 varying in capacity from 2,500 barrels up to 35,000. 

 These houses are variously constructed of wood, 



FIG. 49 WEST VIRGINIA APPLE HULSK 



brick, and stone — most of them, however, of stone. 

 They are usually placed on sloping land and built in 

 the fa.shion of a bank barn, with a basement storj- 

 and a story above ground. The basement story is 

 frequently covered with soil on two or three sides, 

 making a sort of a cellar. Some of these buildings 

 are used merel}' as warehouses, while others are pro- 

 vided with an ice chamber, always on the second or 

 third story. Where ice is used a metallic floor is pro- 

 vided for the ice chamber. The storeroom, besides 

 having the .stone wall, usually iS to 24 inches thick, is 



