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room being of prime importance, the floor should be 
cemented whenever existing conditions permit. Of 
course, ample provision has to be made for thorough 
drainage, ventilation and circulation of air. Several 
devices for the accomplishment of this have been 
patented, and an _ excellent non-patented plan is 
minutely described and illustrated in Theron L. Hiles’ 
book on the ‘Ice Crop.’ The general construction of 
the walls, roof, ventilation, ete., of such a storage 
house does not differ materially from that of ordinary 
ice houses. If the storage house is used much during 
hot weather, the greater part of the ice will probably 
have melted before the fall fruit comes in. It will 
therefore be necessary to have a reserve ice house 
near by, from which the storage house can be re- 
plenished.” 
The requisites for keeping grapes during the 
winter are given as follows by George C. Snow:* 
“Any good building in which the temperature can be 
held even at about 35°, with ventilation as may be 
required, this to be determined by noting how the 
fruit is keeping, will be found available for grapes. 
No positive rules can be laid down. A cooling room, 
in which the fruit ean be first cooled, is a necessity. 
If placed directly in cold storage, the temperature will 
be found to be raised rapidly by placing a quantity 
of warm fruit in the room. As even a temperature 
as possible is much the best. Grapes should not be 
packed in baskets for shipping before being stored. 
They should be ripe, as grapes do not mature after 
* Rural New-Yorker, Feb. 1, 1896; Bull, 117, Cornell Exp. Sta, 
