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and in ; all the other is very cheap ; and as we did it with our 

 own help and at odd times, I can't tell you. Any one else could 

 figure it up just as well what the cost would be, and a little bet- 

 ter than I could. But since then — we are building now — we 

 have got part of it now — a larger storage room in our barn. 

 We had some room that we could spare without interfering 

 seriously with our hay room. We had a silo in one part of the 

 barn — and we took a space about forty feet from the silo to the 

 end of the barn. We took and dug down to get six feet below 

 the barn floor ; laid up with stone and cement, and have a bulk- 

 head in the end of it that opens outside. We have quite a room, 

 high enough to set five barrels high, one above the other. In 

 that way we are getting a place where we can store ten to twelve 

 hundred barrels. When I built this first house it was built to 

 hold 600 barrels in 1895. I didn't have an idea I should need 

 anything else to hold my apples. But in just a few years we 

 had outgrown that and this year we picked over 1,200; so at 

 this rate we shall have to be looking out for another one pretty 

 soon. 



President Gilbert. Will Mr. Kinney give information in 

 regard to cost and also inform us in regard to the holding of 

 the temperature and securing it? 



Mr. Kinney. The cost of the building of course cannot be 

 determined until one knows what the conditions are that the 

 person is building under. The building which we built in 1888 

 cost $1,500, slate roof, with 5 ft. wall, 2^ at the bottom; the 

 cost of course would be $2,500 or more today. But any one can 

 estimate the cost the same as they would estimate the cost of 

 any other building to make it air-tight. 



About the sweating of apples, apples will always sweat when 

 they are moved from one condition of temperature to another, 

 whether it is colder or warmer, but that doesn't afifect the apples 

 unless they are constantly changed. 



Now just a word in regard to holding the temperature in such 

 a room as this. If this room was filled with apples, perhaps 

 2,000 barrels, open, not headed, one barrel on top of the other, 

 I don't believe they would freeze here in a cold night. The 

 secret of this is that every apple is a holder of warmth or cold. 

 Whatever the temperature is in the middle of one apple it will 

 be at the outside of it too and there is from five to six hundred 



