Advice About Storing Fruits. 435 
STORING FRUITS. 
It is impossible to draw the line between a 
packing-house and a storage-house. In fact, the 
same structure may be used for both purposes, as 
the grape house is which has been described in 
the preceding pages. There is more and more 
necessity that the fruit-grower should provide the 
means of storing fruits, when prices are low and 
competition is very sharp. 
General advice.—As a rule, it will not pay the 
fruit-grower to build iced storage or chemical store- 
houses for his fruit, unless he has a very large 
acreage. This cold-storage of fruit is really a busi- 
uess by itself, and requires a great deal of care 
and skill to earry it through suecessfully, and a 
discussion of it is foreign to the purpose of this 
book. If the grower desires to keep his produce 
until late winter or spring, and has no eellars or 
natural storage place, it will ordinarily pay him 
best to put it into some commercial cold-storage 
house, and to pay so much per package for the 
storing of it. 
For temporary storage, however, these remarks 
will not apply. Every person who grows fruits, 
especially perishable kinds, should have some kind of 
a building in which he may place the fruits over 
night, or for two or three days, when waiting for 
the market to improve, or for the purpose of cool- 
ing them down before shipment. These houses are 
ordinarily cooled merely by coid air. They are often 
