lOO FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



especially in the northern states and in Canada. The 

 principal difficulty is that the ice is needed chiefly in 

 the late fall, so that it has to be carried all summer, 

 through the full season of greatest waste. Usually, 

 however, a comparatively small quantity is required, 

 merely enough to cool down the rooms and the fruit 

 when the storage season com- 

 mences. 



It is practically necessarj', 

 to make use of ice for cooling 

 a storage room, that the ice 

 be placed in a room or 

 chamber above the storage \ 

 space, unless some special I 

 system is used such as is 

 described hereafter. This ne- 

 cessity presents a serious 

 inconvenience — namely, that 

 the ice cannot usually be 

 stored and kept where it is to 

 be used. If the fruit storage 

 room could be under the ice 

 house the arrangement would 

 be ideal and the whole thing 

 could be planned with ease. 

 But it is highly impracticable 

 to make an ice house of the 

 second story of a fruit house 

 and to keep ice there through 

 the entire summer. This means, practically, that 

 under ordinary circumstances the fruit house and the 

 ice house must be separate. They may be close to- 



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FIG. 35 — SECTION OF 

 STORAGE HOUSE DE- 

 SIGNED BY FAVILLE 

 AND HALL 



