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top of each box. Alleys should be left open in front of each 

 cold-air inlet flue and a space of 6 inches to 1 foot left open 

 between the wall and the piles of boxes. 



During the fall season all openings, including doors and 

 windows, should be left open through the nights and closed 

 in the mornings. This is in order to bring in as rapidly as 

 possible the cooler air and to confine it there. A little atten- 

 tion to this matter is worth many dollars in holding the fruit. 

 Close attention to the temperature outside and in will pay 

 many times over. Thermometers should be placed in the 

 cellar so that accurate knowledge of the temperature may be 

 had. 



During the storage season occasional use should be made of 

 the ventilating system so that the air may not become stag- 

 nant. Select a day when the outer temperature is neither 

 too warm nor too cold and open the whole system for a few 

 hours. If the flues are properly designed and built it is pos- 

 sible to change the air very rapidly. 



No storage cellar is a bit better than the fruit in it and the 

 method used in managing it. 



There are many successful storage cellars in use in Massa- 

 chusetts and examples of several types may be of interest. 



The Auburn Fruit Company of Worcester has, at its orchard 

 in Auburn, a cellar built for apple storage some years ago. It 

 has been uniformly successful for holding the fruit. This 

 cellar is built with concrete walls, below ground level on two 

 sides and one end and has a packing room at the other end. 

 It has a shed construction building over it which is used for 

 package storage. 



R. C. Cobb of Littleton and A. N. Calkins of Harvard have 

 successfully reconstructed old barn cellars into efficient apple 

 storages. E. F. Shumway of Belchertown has a good storage 

 cellar made by roofing over an abandoned house cellar. The 

 Williamsburg Fruit Growers Association has a co-operative 

 storage and packing plant constructed from an old barn. Any 

 of the above will gladly show people interested how their 

 plants were built and what the results are. 



