64 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Lie to construct a Liiildiiig large eiiougii to hold other things, 

 vegetables, say, in conjunction with the fruit, so that you 

 could store everything that you raised, beets and onions and 

 parsnijis and cabbages, in the same building ? 



Professor Seaes. That would depend altogether on the 

 circumstances. If a neighborhood were growing all these dif- 

 ferent things and were keeping them there I think it Avould 

 be very desirable to have them provided for in the building. 

 We have both in our storage building, but there is only one 

 door between the two compartments and that is kept locked. 

 Care must be taken that the odors don't get from the vege- 

 tables into the fruit compartment. This is a danger which can 

 be easily avoided, and I think it is a very satisfactory ar- 

 rangement, because you can put up your vegetable storage 

 a good deal cheaper if you combine the two than by making 

 it a separate storage. 



Mr. John P. Bowditcii. How much would the invest- 

 ment be to build such a cold-storage plant as the one you 

 have described ? 



Professor Seaes. The figures I mentioned run all the 

 way from $1.50 to $5 per barrel capacity of the storage; and 

 the general opinion seems to be that about $2.50 is the average 

 cost per barrel. Perhaps if you strike an average of about 

 $3 per barrel you Avill have it, so that if you want to put up 

 a 1,000-barrel plant it will cost you, complete, about $3,000. 



Mr. R. H. Race. I had an old ice chute on my farm. It 

 was 16 feet long and 20 inches wide inside, of iV^'inch 

 oak slats, 3 inches wide, bolted together, and the slats across 

 for protection with the bolts set in so that they wouldn't 

 interfere with the ice. The idea came to me that this could 

 be used in putting barrels of apples into the cellar. I cut a 

 square piece out of an old bran sack, slipped it over the barrel 

 and drew it up with an old strap below the two top hoops, so 

 they wouldn't break open when they were slidi ng down. I then 

 got a couple of pairs of ice tongs and gave one to each man 

 and they carried the apples in there just as fast as they could 

 slide them down. It was a very simple arrangement and I 

 put in 200 barrels of apples in short order, and there was no 



