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dealer Knows how to buy in order to have 

 varieties for all seasons. 



The large cold storage warehouse to be 

 found in all towns and cities of any considerable 

 size makes it possible for producers as well as 

 dealers to store their stock at reasonable rates. 

 This device of the trade tends to equalize both 

 the distribution and the sale of the product. 

 The fruit does not all pass out of the hands 

 of the producer at harvest time. Many growers 

 place it either in their own storage houses or 

 ship it to the cities to be stored in commercial 

 cold storage warehouses. This tends to maintain 

 better prices at harvest and often results in a 

 good profit to the grower later in the season. 



Through the invention of the gravity brine 

 circulating system for cold storage high class 

 refrigeration is available to every orchardist 

 operating in a territory where an abundant 

 supply of natural ice can be harvested or where 

 manufactured ice can be had at small cost. The 

 great advantage of cold storage lies in the 

 possibility of subjecting the fruit to a tempera- 

 ture, as soon as it is harvested, which arrests 

 ripening and makes it possible, by maintaining 

 a temperature low enough to prevent the growth 

 of fungi and rots, to keep the fruit much longer. 



The improved methods of handling the fruit 



