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are provided with close-fittiag screens, to keep out rats and squirrels. 

 This cellar will hold easily fifty tons of grapes in the picking-trays. 

 The first floor is divided into two rooms, the front one being a packing- 

 room 25 feet square, 

 and the back room 

 being a storage and 

 shipping department 25 

 by 35 feet. This pack- 

 ing-room is provided 

 with heat, and is hghted 

 by seven large win- 

 dows. The floor above 

 the cellar is double, 

 and made of l}^-inch 

 matched pine, with an 

 abvmdant air-space be- 

 tween the two layers. 

 This, therefore, protects 

 the cellar from sudden 

 fluctuations of tempera- 

 ture. The building is 

 also shaded, especially 

 from the afternoon sun; 

 by large trees. It has 18-foot posts, a tin roof, the two rooms in 

 the first floor ceiled with pine, but the top floor not ceiled. 



The other type of packing-house (used only for pur- 

 poses of packing and of storing packages) is illustrated by 

 Figs. 175 and 176. In this case there is no cellar, for 

 the grapes are not to remain in the house more than 

 a day or two at the longest, and they ordinarily pass 

 directly through it on their way to the railway station. 

 The main floor of the building is 24 by 40 feet, and, aside 

 from this, there is a driveway, W, under the same roof, 

 and which measures 11 by 30 feet. This driveway con- 

 nects with the main floor by two doors. The front room, 

 N, which is lighted by four windows in the front and one 

 on the side, and is 12 by 24 feet in size, is the packing- 



Fig. 176. Ground-plan of Fig. 176. 



