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will largely depend on the "lay of the land," but, as a general 

 rule, if the length be twice the width it will work out well. 

 The storage should be located as near the center of production 

 as possible, keeping in mind ease of reaching it and ease of 

 getting out with fruit for market. As a general proposition 

 it is best not to make the cellar more than 8 feet deep in the 

 clear, that is between floor and ceiling. If the grower is using 

 bushel boxes with 1 inch risers, this will permit of stacking 

 eight or nine high, which is as much as is easy to handle. 



The walls may be of concrete, masonry, brick or hollow tile. 

 For most localities, however, it is probably best to use con- 

 crete. In the greater part of Massachusetts it is possible to 

 obtain easily the necessary sand and gravel. In making the 

 excavation a little care in keeping the banks as nearly per- 

 pendicular as possible will make it necessary to build but one 

 form for the concrete. The face of the bank can be used for 

 the other side of the form. The walls should be at least a 

 foot thick at the top and should be more than that at the 

 bottom, especially if one contemplates the erection of a build- 

 ing over the cellar. The walls should go at least 18 inches 

 below the floor level of the cellar so that rats will not burrow 

 under. In building a wall of this thickness heavy rocks can 

 be used, being careful to get the concrete well down around 

 them. In building the wall of course gaps will be left wherever 

 ventilators, windows and doors are to be placed. 



The floor of the cellar should be dirt except in special cases 

 when the soil is very wet or where an easily applied supply of 

 water is available. This dirt floor will supply the necessary 

 moisture. In cases where a water supply can be easily utilized 

 a concrete floor may be laid, provision for conducting the 

 water being made as circumstances may demand. Successful 

 methods have been used which included a shallow trench 

 around the edge of the floor into which the M^ater could be 

 turned as occasion demanded. Another method has been to 

 dig a series of shallow blind wells which were connected by 

 pipes from well to well and drained outside the cellar. If the 

 water from a spring can be carried into the cellar and a stream 

 kept constantly running, it will not only provide moisture 

 but will help in equalizing the temperatures. 



