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Considering evaporated apples, the speaker exhibited a number 

 of specimens. An evaporating plant varies in expense, as there 

 are many kinds of evaporators. Those costing from fifty 

 dollars to one hundred and seventy-five dollars will evaporate 

 fifty bushels a day ; those costing one hundred and seventy- 

 five dollars to two hundred and fifty dollars, from one hun- 

 dred to one hundred and fifty bushels a day ; and those cost- 

 ing three hundred dollars will evaporate one hundred and 

 fifty bushels a day. There are machines that cost eight hundred 

 dollars that operate by steam, with a capacity of two hundred 

 bushels a day. The cost of evaporating is from one and one- 

 quarter to one and one-half cents a pound. 



He said that for canning a better grade of apples was used 

 than for evaporating purposes. The profit, however, was great, 

 and in this line of goods Great Britain takes twenty thou- 

 sand dozen annually. These canned goods find their way on the 

 continent also. There was equally as good profit in canned pears. 

 New England Bartlett pears have the best flavor and are in greater 

 demand. In canning, the apples are cored and quartered, placed 

 in the gallon can, and water is put in. The can is sealed and 

 placed in a tub or vat and boiled. One and one-half bushels of 

 apples will make twelve gallon cans. For canning, the speaker 

 preferred the Baldwin. 



He said that the wastes from the evaporators were used to make 

 the cheap jellies, and, strange to say, from apples, strawberry, 

 raspberry and other jellies were made, simply by using the flavor 

 of the fruit desired. He said that this was not so bad as it is 

 in England, where turnips form the basis, instead of apples. 



The cold-storage house described by Mr. Perkins (Fig. 2) is a 

 frame building on a solid foundation, the first posts being four 

 inches thick and fourteen feet high. This is covered with paper 

 and sheathing boards. Four-inch studs are again set up on both 

 sides of this wall, and covered with paper and sheathing, thus 

 making a wall about sixteen inches thick, with three four-inch air 

 spaces (as shown at A) . If desired to make this building more 

 ornamental, clapboards may be put outside, thus adding another 

 thickness of paper and sheathing. The roof is built in the same 

 manner, with three four-inch air spaces and a ventilator, and 

 double glass windows (B) on the ridge for light and ventilation. 

 One or more double doors may be provided. Any common frame 

 building could be utilized in this way, by covering both sides of 

 the frame and putting up studs outside and inside of this covering 

 and sheathing up. The foundation should be firm, and below the 

 action of frost outside. This house, after the temperature has 



