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domestic or foreign raarlcets. In many cases tliese ware- 

 houses serve as a clieck to the general sale of fruit off 

 the farms. In case the farmers storage house should 

 not he large enough to hold his fruit, it can he trans- 

 ferred to the city warehouse and there stopped from go- 

 ing on the general market, should the prices fail to be 

 at a suitable figure to pay the farmer to sell. 



So below I give a table*showing a list of the cities 

 and towns in which more than 75,000 barrels were stored 

 about DecemfeBr the first 1902 



IE COLD STORAGE. 



PLACE. miMBER OF BAEEELS, 



Chicago 431,000 



Hew York City 200,000 



Philadelphia and vicinity 200,000 



Rochester 150,000 



St, Louis Mo 120,000 



Boston and vicinity 102,000 



Indianapolis, Ind, 100,000 



Leroy, N. Y 100,000 



Brighton, U, Y 90,000 



Loclq)ort, H, Y 90,000 



Albion, N. Y 86,000 



* G. H Powell, bulletin 48, U. S, Dept, 



