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Rhode Island Greening. Hold your apples until you can 

 meet the market, and at the time when the market wants your 

 fruit. 



Discussion. . 



A lively discussion followed Mr. Kinney's excellent 

 address, the many questions asked and answered attesting the 

 deep interest of fruit growers in the apple — still the most 

 important topic in any fruit meeting. 



A AIember : I would like to ask Mr. Kinney how he keeps 

 his apples in winter, whether he keeps them in cold storage 

 or not? 



Mr. Kinney : Our climate in northern New England does 

 not need any ice in our storehouses to keep our apples right. 

 The atmosphere in nothern New England is all sufficient for 

 the keeping of winter apples, and if we can only retard them 

 by putting them in a room that can be ventilated to meet the 

 changes of the temperature in the fall, it will be sufficient. 

 Every individual here that has ever built a barn or a house 

 would know just what to do. You want a building that is 

 air tight, where the atmosphere can be kept regular from day 

 to day, and constant over a warm spell and cold spell, and the 

 temperature even from month to month, in order to keep your 

 New England winter apples. To build a storehouse for a 

 farmer's use depends upon the size of your crop. Our store- 

 house is 30 by 50, and it has two storage rooms, one partially 

 underground and the other entirely above ground, with a good 

 wall and with tight outside boarding, with two hollow spaces 

 between the two walls, and then we have double windows and 

 shutters outside of those, and it is practically air tight. \\'e 

 ventilate through the windows very largely, though we have 

 a ventilator that goes up through the top of the building. I 

 don't know but this picture shows there was an observatory 

 on top of the storehouse, and that is not only fine for a ven- 

 tilator to the building, but it is a grand place to go and look 

 over the orchard and look over the lake and the mountains 

 on each side of us. 



Prof. Gulley: Please state a little about when you put 



