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cellar. This may be of stud and board construction covered 

 with shingles or roofing paper, or it may be framed and cov- 

 ered with shiplap. It can be most satisfactorily used as a 

 storage for empty boxes, as a shop for assembling boxes and 

 barrels, and as a storage room for orchard equipment. If 

 walls and ceiling be sheathed over it can well be used as an 

 apple storage for the part of the crop which it is desired to 

 move early in the season before really cold weather sets in. 



If no building is to be put up over the cellar the ceiling 

 beams should be boarded over on their upper sides and a 

 roof put on. With good tight ceiling and roof no danger of 

 frost getting in should exist. 



After constructing the storage cellar the problem of holding 

 the fruit is only partially completed. No storage however 

 carefully planned and correctly built will successfully hold 

 poor fruit; neither will it hold good fruit in marketable con- 

 dition unless properly managed. 



Producers in Massachusetts who are practicing storage do 

 so with one of two objects in view. One class is storing ap- 

 ples of the higher grades that are sized and packed at har- 

 vest time and are not, as a rule, repacked but are shipped as 

 market conditions demand. Generally speaking, apples stored 

 in common storage under these conditions go to market early, 

 in the winter. The second group, and much the larger num- 

 ber are enrolled in this class, store direct from the trees, making 

 no attempt to grade or size the fruit until it is packed out for 

 market. 



Certain growers have made a practice of running the fruit 

 over a sizing machine as it goes into the cellar and have not 

 lost anything in keeping quality. For a grower who is mar- 

 keting several grades this would appear to be good practice 

 since it permits of stacking a given size by itself, which facili- 

 tates filling an order for that size fruit. Fruit to be thus 

 handled needs to be especially hard and firm so that no ap- 

 preciable damage by bruising will be done by the machine. 



The boxes of fruit should be piled in a careful manner. If 

 boxes with no risers are used strips of 1-inch thick lumber 

 should be placed on the tops of the boxes before putting on 

 the next layer. This will allow a circulation of air over the 



