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A Colorado house. — Hon. W. S. Coburn, of Hotch- 

 kiss, Col. , has a very successful house which is known 

 all over the state. It is 36 x 60 feet, and one and a 

 half stories high. It is built double, with two 8-inch 

 concrete walls having a 4-inch dead-airspace between. 

 The lower floor is of cement with a board covering. 

 The boards are laid three-quarters of an inch apart. 

 The upper floor is carried by 2 x 8 joists. Strips are 

 nailed on the lower edges of these, and inch boards 

 are sawed and furred in between the joists, being 

 nailed to the strips just mentioned. These furrings 

 are then covered with heavy felt paper, and the 

 spaces between the joists filled to the top with con- 

 crete. Another floor is laid on top of this, making 

 the whole construction uncommonly sound and tight. 

 There are ventilators at each end of the building to 

 admit air from, the outside. The apples are kept in 

 bins, which seems to be customary in the western 

 states. The bins have successive slat floors placed 

 every 30 inches, one above another, and the fruit is 

 spread on these. Over each bin there is a ventilator, 

 which, in drawing off warm air, creates a draft through 

 the apples in the bins. The temperature is controlled 

 entirely by ventilators. Such control has been found 

 entirely practicable and satisfactory. 



More Colorado experience. — Another Colorado apple 

 grower who has had much gratifying experience in 

 storing fruit, particularly apples, is J. S. McClelland, 

 of Fort Collins. His storage house is 70 feet long, 

 varying in width from 12 to 18 feet, and holding about 

 1,500 barrels. This part is mostly under ground, and 



