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most apples in coinmon storage Deoeniber the first 1902, 



APPLES IS COIMOIT STORAGE. 

 STATES. NUMBER OP BARRELS. 



Hew York 474,000 



Maine 240 ,000 



New Hampshire 123 ,000 



Massachusetts 100 , 000 



Vermont , 75 , 000 



Prom the atove tables we can see that the cold stor- 

 age system had made great adrancement over the common 

 way of storage and this increase is steadily going An 

 each year, I am sorry that I was unable to obtain later 

 statistics to show the more recent development of the 

 cold storage system. However we know that it is making 

 a steady advancement each year, 



PTOSrCTIOUS OF THE COLD STORAGE 

 WAREHOUSE. 



Time and again the question has been asked in what 

 was'' tlie cold storage method affected the fruit in order 

 to keep it in good condition so long. There is a good 

 deal of misunderstanding as to the fxmction of the ware- 

 house and the condition leads to frequent confusions be- 



