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suffered no damage, though the thermometer outside 

 went down to 27 degrees below zero for a short tune. 

 No heat was given, and no artificial refrigeration was 

 required. The capacity of the house has not been 

 severely taxed thus far, for, though Mr. Fisk had a 

 market crop of over 1,300 barrels this year, the 

 exceptionally good local market which he enjoys 

 absorbed the greater part of it almost direct from 

 the orchard. 



The foregoing notes are taken largely from an 

 account published by the author in Country Gentle- 

 man, 66 : 128, February 14, 1901. Mr. Fisk says that 

 he can not give an exact statement of the cost of the 

 house, because a good part of the lumber was from 

 his own wood lot, and was prepared at odd times. 

 The labor of construction was not let out to a carpen- 

 ter or contractor either. The house was essentially 

 ' ' home-made. ' ' Perhaps this is a chief reason why it 

 is remarkably well made. Mr. Fisk thinks, however, 

 that $400 would be a fair estimate of the cost of 

 such a building in his neighborhood. He regards it 

 as a good investment, and says his only regret is that 

 he did not build sooner and on a larger scale. 



XI. PROFESSOR ALWOOD'S STORAGE HOUSE 



Professor William B. Alwood, horticulturist of the 

 Virginia Experiment Station, has described in his Bul- 

 letin 58 a storage house which he built at Blacksburg, 

 Va., and which involves a principle somewhat different 

 from anything met in other fruit storage houses. The 

 general construction of the house is also interesting. 

 The following account of the house is adapted from 



