FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEE TING. 1 3 1 



the apples in in the fah, when you are pieking them, how you 

 regulate the temperature then ? 



Mr. Kinney: We regulate it entirely by the atmosphere. 

 We always have at our place a cold west wind, and we open 

 those windows and let the air blow through, and when the 

 wind shifts and the warm breeze comes we shut them up. 

 When we open up all of these it becomes quite cold in there, 

 and when it gets warm w^e close them, and in that way we 

 keep that room very cold, but not quite as cold as it ought to 

 be. If ever ice is used it ought to be used at that time to 

 cool dovvn the fruit a little more, but there is no danger of 

 these winter apples going down in a minute if they are put 

 in there cool, and the air is cold to the extent I speak of. 

 One point in storing. Take an apple like the Rhode Island 

 Greening, and it is much better to store in crates than bar- 

 rels, because they don't scald so badly. They do dry up a 

 little more in crates. We don't cement our cellar, because 

 we find we get a good deal of moisture from the soil, and 

 that helps to keep them moist, and the apples are not inclined 

 to dry up ; I think in western New York they use crates for 

 storing purposes. Bins are ver)- good for the Northern Spy. 

 When w^e were short of barrels, we built a bin the whole 

 length of the cellar, and we put in over three hundred barrels 

 of Spies in that bin, and I was fearful that the bottom apples 

 would be squashed, that there would be too much weight there, 

 but I found when I took them out they were all just as fresh, 

 and there was not a jammed one in the whole lot. We use 

 a spring wagon to carry our apples from the orchard to the 

 storehouse, and if we buy any apples a few miles away, we 

 always head the barrels before we draw them. We never 

 head our barrels of Spies when we put them in this storage; 

 it saves jamming and they keep just as well in an air tight 

 room, and where there is no change in the atmosphere it is 

 not necessary. 



Mr. Hotchkiss: The Spy is not as profitable in my 

 orchard as some other varieties. • 



]^Ir. Kixxev: It is so with us to a certain extent; the Spy 

 needs a special soil. On the east side of our farm I wouldn't 

 set a Spy tree because it is underlaid with a hard slate rock, 



