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apples, and in these neighborhoods storage houses 

 have been found very useful. The following notes of 

 conditions and experience in West Virginia are made 

 chiefly from information furnished by Professors I/. C. 

 Corbett and K. C. Davis. 



There are in Hancock County six or seven houses 

 varying in capacity from 2,500 barrels up to 35,000. 

 These houses are variously constructed of wood. 



FIG. 49 — WEST VIRGINIA APPLE HOUSE 



brick, and stone— most of them, however, of stone. 

 They are usually placed on sloping land and built in 

 the fashion of a bank bam, with a basement story 

 and a story above ground. The basement story is 

 frequently covered with soil on two or three sides, 

 making a sort of a cellar. Some of these buildings 

 are used merely as warehouses, while others are pro- 

 vided with an ice chamber, always on the second or 

 third story. Where ice is used a metallic floor is pro- 

 vided for the ice chamber. The storeroom, besides 

 having the stone wall, usually 18 to 24 inches thick, is 



