142 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



they are hoisted to the first floor by horse power, and 

 then loaded into the car from the rear door. 



The dimensions of the building are 40x60 feet, 

 outside measurement. The building consists of a cel- 

 lar II feet high in the clear — the first story of the 

 same hight — and the attic, which is used for storing 

 empty barrels, wool, etc. The combined capacity of 

 the cellar and first floor is 7,000 pony barrels or 6,500 

 standard barrels. The cellar walls are two feet thick, 

 made of small stones imbedded in grout. Five venti- 

 lators open into the cellar floor — one in the center and 

 one in each quarter of the floor. Prom these one-foot 

 pipes lead outside. The illustration (Fig. 46) shows 

 four ventilators, which open outside the building near 

 the ground, with doors by which the outside opening 

 may be closed at will. The cellar has an earth floor 

 and a ceiling of inch hemlock stuff. 



The walls of the first story are 20 inches thick, 

 made of small stones imbedded in grout. The inside 

 of the wall is formed by a 2x4 studding set against 

 the outer wall and covered with matched hemlock. 

 The air space opens into the cellar below and into the 

 attic above, and may be closed by a shutter in the 

 attic, so that a current of cold air from the cellar may 

 be sent through the air spaces whenever it is desirable 

 to do so. Over the hemlock ceiling of the cellar is laid 

 about three-fourths of an inch of mortar between the 

 sleepers. The floor of the first story laid on these 

 sleepers is of two-inch matched pine. The ceiling is 

 .rough hemlock. Above this the space between the 

 joists is filled solid with sawdust, over which are laid 

 the inch hemlock boards which form the attic floor. 



