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rate one hundred and fifty bushels a day. There are 

 machines that cost eight liundred 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 

 thousand 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 pa|)er 

 and sheathing. The roof is built in the same manner, with 

 three four-inch air spaces and a ventilator, and double glass 

 windows (7^) 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 



