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Mr. Mann. I can't tell you exactly, but we put them in 

 and keep them shut up in the daytime as mufch as we can, and 

 keep it open at night, to get the benefit of the night air to 

 cool them off. The water is somewhere about 46 degrees, and 

 that helps to keep the temperature down. In fact, I will tell 

 you what is a pretty good thermometer, — a pail of water 

 in the cellar. If it doesn't freeze, it is all right, and if it 

 freezes a little and doesn't thaw, it is all right. You want it 

 just about at that point. I happened to put a board in a week 

 ago, put it on top of a box to step on, and on one end there 

 was a handful of snow. I put it in under another box, set it 

 on it, and I noticed this morning that the bunch of snow was 

 there yet. It has been there a week and hasn't thawed. Still 

 the apples aren't freezing. 



A Member. How much growth on the orchard would you 

 call right growth? 



Mr. Mann. On the branches a year? I should judge a foot 

 or a foot and a half. A foot is small. Perhaps a foot and a 

 half. I guess they grow 2 feet, sometimes. Of course the 

 small tree will often grow more than that if you let it run up, 

 sometimes 4 or 5 feet. 



Chairman Jenks. We have just time for one or two other 

 questions. The question is asked how is the storage ventilated 

 in the winter. 



Mr. Mann. Why, I have one window open all the time. I 

 have been kind of scared when this 14 degrees below weather 

 came along, thinking that it might get in there. It is just a 

 window covered with a screen, burlap hung behind it, and that 

 is open on the south side all the winter. That lets some air 

 through. And then I have other places that have been venti- 

 lated some, I leave the door open to the south. 



Chairman Jenks. One more question. 



Mr. Mann. When you take hold of an apple and turn it 

 up that way [indicating] and it comes off fairly easy, that is 

 about the right time to pick it, no matter whether it is going 

 to rain next day or not. 



A Member. What kind of apples would you set if you were 

 going to set in your orchard? 



Mr. Mann. Set Baldwins for main crop. 



