FRUIT STORAGE 



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gether, or even built one against the other; but when 

 the fruit room is to be cooled the ice has to be handled 

 out of its storage quarters and put where it is needed. 

 The usual method of using ice for cooling a fruit 

 room is to place it in quantity in a room above, 

 arranging the ventilation so as to let the cool air flow 

 down from the ice room into the fruit room and the 



FIG. 36 — CROSS SECTION OF FAVILLE-HALL STORAGE HOUSE 



warm air to be carried off through flues or shafts. The 

 cool air is best allowed to flow down at the sides of 

 the building behind guides, which bring it nearly to the 

 floor, in which case the warm air exit is placed in the 

 center of the room and opens near the ceiling. The 

 accompanying illustration of a storage house described 

 by Faville and Hall ' (Kansas Experiment Station 

 Bulletin 84, April, 1899) shows this arrangement 

 reversed, the cool air coming in near the middle of the 



