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was built for the storage of nursery stock, and in which 
I have had apples stored all winter. It is frost- 
proof, built on a heavy stone wall twenty-four inches 
thick and three feet high. On this wall were set up 
two by four scantling; these were sheathed with inch 
hemlock, then covered with tarred building paper, 
then furred out with strips four inches deep, and 
again covered as before, until the wall has three air 
spaces. The roof is constructed in the same way to 
protect against frost. Light and ventilation come 
from two rows of windows at the top. The roof is 
gravel. The outside is covered with novelty siding. 
The building has double or two sets of doors at each 
end, and a driveway through the center. It is 
painted inside and out, is one hundred feet long by 
forty feet wide, the whole cost was $1,400, and it 
would afford storage for ten thousand barrels. The 
atmosphere is the same inside as out, only that the 
building is frost-proof and can be run in the winter 
months with a variation of not over 12°; there is no 
smell of a cellar whatever, and stock always keeps 
perfectly. Such a house, or a better one, in a neigh- 
borhood, would pay four years out of five, at least 
50 cents per barrel over all cost of labor for han- 
dling, sorting, insurance, etce., and this year where 
there were apples, it would have paid $1 to $1.50 per 
barrel.” 
Requisites for domestic storage.—The home storage 
establishment is generally either a cellar or a_half- 
cellar, although, by taking particular pains in the 
construction of air spaces, a building entirely above 
