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generally too great for the low price of grapes, and 

 this practice never made much headway. The very 

 low price of grapes, in fact, made it positively necessary 

 that any storage must first of all be comparatively 

 inexpensive; and as the cheapest possible system is 

 that of home storage in ventilated houses, this method 

 came into most common use. 



The system of storage in houses cooled by 

 ventilation has thus come to be the one generally 

 practiced. It is successful beyond what might have 

 been hoped in advance of experience. Indeed, the 

 system seems to be as effective in keeping grapes as 

 it is in keeping apples — that is to say, it is as satis- 

 factory as any ordinary practical piece of hard work 

 is ever hkely to be. 



The houses or storage rooms used for grapes are 

 exactly like those used for apples. The houses de- 

 scribed in subsequent pages of this chapter and the 

 designs given are mostly for apple storage; but this is 

 merely because this crop has come under my more 

 immediate observation. I wished to write this account 

 as far as possible from my actual personal knowledge, 

 and I trust such a course will seem justified in the 

 eyes of the reader. But any of the houses herein 

 described could be adapted to grape storage, usually 

 without material alteration. 



Mr. Trevor Moore, of Hammondsport, N. Y., in 

 the center of one of the largest grape producing dis- 

 tricts in eastern North America, has been very suc- 

 cessful in growing and storing grapes. I am indebted 

 to him for much valuable information on this subject. 

 He has also furnished me with the following descrip- 



