the cold storage system is proving beneficial to the 

 fruit industry and encouraging its development over 

 large territories, 



EXTENT OF COLD STORAGE WARE*- 

 HOUSIITG IiroUSTBY, 



Perhaps there is no one thing that has had more in- 

 fluence on the development of the fruit industry than 

 that of the "Cold Storage Warehousing" and below I copy 

 a paragraph from work done by the Department of Agri- 

 culture showing the extent of the warehouse industry. 



Accurate* statistics are difficult to obtain but in 

 I90I it was estimated that the capacity of the cold 

 storage houses, including meat, egg and butter storage 

 was a 150,000,000 cubic feet of space, of which 50,000, 

 000 cubic feet distributed in six hundred warehouses, 

 were devoted to fruit storage. Since I90I there has 

 been a large increase in the number of fruit storage 

 houses, especially in the apple growing districts, where 

 Bjany plants with a capacity of from five thousand to 

 thirty thousand barrels have been erected in or near the 

 orchards or the railroad stations. 



The cold storage business has developed most exten- 

 sively in large cities and in towns conveniently loca- 

 ted for distributing the fruit later in the season to 



*G, E, Powell, bulletin, 48. 



