144 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



also rented storage to others at a fixed rate by the 

 barrel. 



XIV. MRS. I,. E. ALLEN'S STORAGE HOUSE 



The storage house of Mrs. 1,. E. Allen, at South 

 Hero, Vt., is interesting not only as being an entirely 

 successful building of its kind, but also as exemplify- 

 ing in its construction certain practical conditions 

 which have frequently to be met. It often occurs that 

 the fruit farmer does not care to build a fruit storage 

 house out and out, bran new, from the ground up. 

 He has some other building on hand which he can 

 more conveniently make over, or some beginning from 

 which he can enlarge to suit his needs. These were 

 the circumstances which governed the planning of the 

 house under consideration. 



This house was built on a foundation already made, 

 where another structure had stood, and the fruit room 

 above the foundation was also built against another 

 building already standing on one side. These condi- 

 tions, of course, lowered the cost of construction con- 

 siderably, and this must be remembered in examining 

 the figures given below. Nevertheless, these condi- 

 tions of construction occur so often that the case is 

 fairly typical, and may be properly given >at its face 

 value. 



The house consists of two rooms, the lower one 

 being a basement with stone sides. This basement 

 opens out on the level of the ground at one end, and 

 is covered with earth to the top of the wall at the 

 other end. The basement story is 7 feet 2 inches 

 high inside, and the room above is 7 feet 7>^ inches 



