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those apples. They don't want to be hit together wet and then 

 become dry, they don't want to become cold and then warm. If 

 those apples get so cold they freeze, it don't matter very much 

 if they don't thaw out too quickly. An apple gets to be cold, 

 very cold, freezes, and then if it goes back very gradually to 

 very cold and to cold and don't go any further than simply cold, 

 you never know that the apple has been frozen. So don't be 

 afraid if your apples get touched on the outside around the 

 walls with frost; it won't hurt them any if you don't handle 

 them while they are frozen. 



Now the next matter which comes up for a storehouse at 

 home perhaps would be the convenience to the farmer at picking 

 time, although this labor question is a hard one when a man has 

 a thousand or two thousand barrels of apples to pick and no one 

 to help him do it. And then when you get together, as I did 

 this fall and have several falls, a lot of young men, it happened 

 this year that the first lot of men I hired didn't one of them put 

 in an appearance, and then when I hired another set, hired them 

 from factories where they had been shut down a few days, those 

 boys didn't have any more interest in the picking of those apples 

 than they did in anything else. The question with me was, how 

 can I get those apples secured the quickest. You know there 

 was a terrible frost that scared us all to death pretty near — 

 didn't seem to hurt the apples right in our locality, but it did in 

 some parts of Vermont. How can we handle them the quickest, 

 the safest and the best? — The best way I have found is to have 

 a place where you can haul those apples from the tree right into 

 their storage place. I haven't sorted or graded an apple that 

 came from the trees — put the good, bad, all conditions, right 

 into the bin and in the barrels. I don't like that way. I would 

 rather partially sort those apples before they go in, but this year 

 I couldn't do it, circumstances were such. This storehouse 

 gives me an opportunity to handle my crop when I couldn't 

 handle it otherwise. One man came to me who had fourteen 

 hundred barrels of apples ; he had them all graded, sorted and 

 sold. He said: "If I had had a storehouse I could have waited 

 two weeks longer before I picked an apple — if I had had a place 

 to put them and then handle them later on — and I would have 

 got more difference than the storehouse would have cost me in 

 the value of those apples, because that is just the time that red 



