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ing the fruit crop over gluts, and especially of hold- 
ing the market from western competition. This 
would no doubt prove to be a very useful method 
for the north for the late fall and winter fruit, 
but it would probably not be practicable for the 
south, or for holding the summer fruits. “If, there- 
fore,” he writes, “every neighborhood in western New 
York had a cold-storage house for barreled apples, 
that would protect against frost and hold anywhere 
from ten thousand to twenty thousand barrels, run, 
if need be, on the same codperative principles and 
methods as the cheese factories of this state, or the 
fruit associations of California or Michigan, would 
not the result be very much more satisfactory to 
the grower than present methods? * * * * * 
Such a building may be of moderate cost and yet 
substantial and durable, and need not always be 
located at the nearest railroad. How many have 
ever figured or thought of the cost to the grower 
of transporting his apples to the railroad or canal 
station from his farm during the months of Sep- 
tember or October, when there is much work to do 
and time is of most value? Say that the grower 
is five or eight miles from said station. I believe 
that for less cost per barrel the dealer located in 
western New York will deliver the same apples in 
barrels at Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth, Philadelphia, 
New York, or Boston. There are quite a number of 
apple houses in western New York owned by dealers, 
but there are few that were built for the express pur- 
pose of safely storing apples. I have a building that 
