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VIII. Summary of Packages 88 



IX. Wrapping Fruits 89 



X. Marks on Packages 89 



Part Five— FRUIT STORAGE 



I. Requirements 95 



II. Systems of Storage 97 



III. Handling the Fruit 109 



IV. Temperatures no 



V. Grape Storage H2 



VI. Storing Vegetables 114 



VII. Storage in Pits 117 



VIII. Storage in "Dugouts" or "Caves" . . . 121 



IX. Mr. T. L. Kinney's House 124 



X. A Canadian Fruit House 128 



XI. Professor Alwood's Storage House .... 131 



XII. A Nova Scotia House 138 



XIII. Mr. T. B. Wilson's House 141 



XIV. Mrs. L. E. Allen's, Storage House .... 144 

 XV. Notes on Various Storage Houses .... 146 



XVI. Design for Simple Lean-to Storage . . . 155 



/ XVII. Design for Commodious Hillside Storage . . 157 



XVIII. Design for a Thousand-barrel Storage House . 161 



XIX. Special Design for Arthur H. Hill .... 165 



Part Six— APPENDIX 



I. Imports and Exports of Fruits, United States . 171 



II. Exports of Apples from Canada .... 175 



III. State Fruit-package Laws 176 



IV. Apple Shippers' Rules 186 



V. The National League of Commission Merchants 



of the United States i8g 



VI. Commission Charges 206 



VII. Shipment in Refrigerator Cars 206 



VIII. The Apple Crop and Market 212 



IX. The Cranberry Crop 217 



X. Handling Southern Grapes 220 



Index 223 



