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built on the open side and should be separated from the 

 cellar proper by a stud and board partition. It should be of 

 a size to permit of the running in of the truck or wagon and 

 give room for efiicient work by two or three men. If a grader 

 is used it will need to be much larger than if such, is not the 

 case. The doors from the packing room to the storage room 

 should be of a size and location to permit the trucks and 

 wagons to run into the cellar if possible. This will help to 

 reduce the man labor in getting the fruit into the cellar. All 

 doors should fit tightly and those on the outside should be 

 double. Plenty of windows should be allowed for in the 

 packing room. It should have a board floor for the comfort 

 of those working there. The packing room is sometimes 

 placed above the storage, but this is an inefficient and expen- 

 sive location for it even if an elevator be installed. 



All openings, doors, windows and inlet flues should be pro- 

 vided with screens made from four to the inch cellar window 

 wire as protection against rats. 



Many farmers have on their places old barn cellars or even 

 old house cellars which, with the expenditure of a little money 

 and labor, may be made into very efficient common storage 

 houses. Most of these old barn cellars were built so that they 

 have three sides below the ground level and the fourth side 

 open. 



The first thing necessary to do is to clean up the cellar, 

 thoroughly removing all manure and, so far as possible, the 

 saturated dirt. The walls shoifld be repaired where necessary 

 and pointed up all round. A concrete footing 4 or 5 inches 

 thick and going down below the foot of the wall for 18 to 24 

 inches is excellent insurance against rats. This footing should 

 be put in on all four sides, and on the open side will serve as 

 a foundation for the stud and board wall it will be necessary 

 to construct. This wall should be built of 2 by 4 inch studs 

 spaced 16 inches, covered on both sides with sheathing paper 

 or one-ply roofing paper, and then with matched boards. The 

 outer side should be waterproofed with shingles or two-ply 

 roofing paper. The remainder of the work in reconstruction 

 will follow the foregoing directions for new construction. 



It is good practice to put up a building over the storage 



