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when we came to the Spies, instead of using barrels which we 

 didn't have at our command, we built bins across the building, 

 in the lower part of the building. These bins held — three of 

 them — held eight hundred barrels and they were tiered right 

 up the same as if bins were built across this room, one bin and 

 then another. We had to make them not too wide because w^e 

 couldn't get the apples in without jamming. Then, as the 

 gentleman has told about, we had to be very careful in emptying 

 in these apples — rolling down and filling the front of the bin 

 first. 



Now it seemed to me at one time when I first thought of stor- 

 ing this fruit, in fact we used to store in bins with partitions 

 eighteen inches or two feet high, and then another bottom placed 

 in the bin and then another, and so on. But it doesn't amount 

 to anything ; I don't care if it is ten feet high. You know you 

 can fill a barrel of eggs and the egg in the lower part of the 

 barrel is no more liable to break than on the top ; the pressure 

 of one against the other holds it. If there is no moving or giv- 

 ing of these sides to the bin so that there is a shaking back and 

 forth, those apples on the bottom of the bin never will jam. 

 Then hang a light right over the top of the bin and it makes the 

 nicest place to grade and sort apples. In the fall all we had to 

 do was to hustle and bustle to get help to pick the apples and get 

 them in those bins. Now we are at leisure to come to Maine 

 or anywhere else and let our apples rest there till the market 

 demands them. This is a great convenience to any farmer. 

 Some farmers may have a location especially adapted, where 

 they can dig into the side of a bank, and in a position where they 

 can get a circulation of cold air; otherwise you can use ice. 



The matter of selling in the winter, shipping in the dead of 

 v^^inter comes in with the cold storage question. We think if 

 we had a thousand or two thousand barrels of apples out here 

 in the storehouse, we are fearful we would not be able to get 

 them marketed without freezing, or that they would be frozen 

 on the way or after they got there, or while we were getting 

 them there. But we have learned that there is no more trouble 

 in shipping apples in the dead of winter than there is in shipping 

 butter or anything else of that nature. The apples are sorted 

 and packed in this fruit house in the temperature which they are 

 held there, and then they are hauled down to the station in a 



