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apples in every barrel, and a thousand or two thousand barrels 

 in a clump like that would have to get the whole body cold 

 enough to freeze before they will freeze in the room, arid the 

 room will be held by that body of apples ; even if it is not so 

 very warm it will be held. If it goes down, if you leave the 

 doors open until it gets really cold in there, so cold that apples 

 will freeze by thermometer test, shut it up and in just a little 

 while it will come right back to the old temperature, because 

 every apple is a holder of a certain degree of temperature. 

 There is nothing that will take the warm or the cold into itself 

 like an apple, will allow the cold or warmth to go in. But it 

 won't allow water to go in, or the juice of the apple to come out 

 unless it is broken, and it holds it there. I think that is impor- 

 tant for every one to remember in building a cold storage, that 

 while a basket of apples would freeze, a whole bunch of apples 

 would hold the temperature to such a condition that they 

 wouldn't freeze. 



Now there is another matter about picking apples. The 

 gentleman has spoken about picking in cold or warm, or very 

 cold. In a warm time in October sometimes, we didn't have it 

 this year, cold and rainy and wet all the time — some years we 

 will have two or three days — and I presume you will have more 

 of them here — very sultry and warm. Apples, in my opinion, 

 never should be picked at that time and put into any bulk, in a 

 barrel, in a storehouse, or anywhere else, unless it is where they 

 can cool off again. The man who owns an orchard wants to be 

 careful that he don't pick in those hot, sultry days ; putting a 

 lot of apples into a bin when they are hot is like putting pork 

 into a barrel before the animal heat is out of it, all the salt in 

 the world don't keep it. And it is just so with apples. Get 

 them cool, not necessarily so very cool, but get them cool before 

 they are put in. 



And about the picking of apples when they are frozen. If 

 the picker picks without gloves — not many of them that will in 

 these days — he will leave marks on the apples where he takes 

 hold of the apple. If the hand is warm it will be very apt to 

 leave a mark on that apple. If they are picked with gloves, I 

 think the gentleman is right. But be very careful about those 

 important points. 



