436 The Principles of Fruit-growing. 
known as “chill rooms.” A room which is well 
fitted for the keeping of butter in warm weather 
may also be used to advantage for fruit. In some 
cases, arrangements can be made for the use of ice 
to reduce the temperature for the time being. If 
one has a considerable quantity of fruit, and has a 
large cellar which is well adapted to the keeping 
of apples, he can often store his crop to advantage 
when the price is low in the fall; but the grower 
must bear in mind that the risks in the storing 
of fruit are very great. In the first place, markets 
may not improve as he thinks they ought; and, 
again, the fruit may not keep well. Even when 
the fruit does keep well, there is frequently a large 
shrinkage, and the expense of re-packing and _ han- 
dling is a large item. The fruit which is designed 
to be kept for the late winter or spring trade should 
be carefully sorted when it is put in storage, and 
especial care should be taken that none of the fruit 
is over-ripe. (See page 379.) Fruit which is in 
proper condition for storing when it is picked may 
be ruined for long-keeping quality by allowing it 
to lie in the sun or in a warm place for a day 
or two. 
Neighborhood or codperative storage is often 
practicable, without, however, attempting to establish 
a true cold-storage business. OC. H. Perkins* has 
presented the advantages of such an enterprise to 
the fruit-growers of New York, as a means of sav- 
** Cold Storage for Neighborhoods,” Proc. 39th Meeting W.N. Y. Hort. 
Soc., 41 (1894). 
