l68 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



The upper floor — the one opening on the bank — 

 will be used as a packing room. The fruit will be re- 

 ceived here, and may be discharged either from here 

 or from the lower story. This room will be used also 

 for icing the pipes in cooling the rooms below. 



The system of ice cooling proposed is that already 

 described, page 103. Pipes of galvanized iron 8 inches 

 in diameter will extend from the icing trough on the 

 upper floor to the waste trough on the lower floor. 

 These can be filled with the crushed ice and salt 

 mixture when desired. If only a part of the storage 

 space is in demand, the lower room will be cooled by 

 filling the tubes as high as the ceiling of that room. 



The necessary ice house will be built against the 

 storage house, probably on the edge of the bluff above, 

 and on a level with the floor of the icing room. 



A lining of rough sheathing will be used between 

 the stone wall and the cooling pipes, and another lining 

 or curtain of lighter material will be placed inside the 

 range of pipes. Other details of construction have not 

 yet been determined on, but will be sufficiently obvious 

 so that any practical builder can follow the general 

 outlines of this plan and make the necessary adapta- 

 tions under any circumstances which make a similar 

 construction .seem desirable. 



