158 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



The Storage house of the Olden Fruit Company, 

 of Olden, Mo., is a pioneer in its way, and its suc- 

 cess has been gratifying, on the whole. The manager 

 writes me that they have held apples in good con- 

 dition till the first of March — this in Missouri. The 

 house is 192 x 46 x 12 feet inside, and holds about 



FIG. 53 — CROSS SECTION OF HILLSIDE STORAGE 



14,000 barrels of apples. The house is not roofed 

 with earth, but the soil which was taken out of the 

 excavation was used to bank up on the lower side as 

 high as the eaves. The roof is of boards battened. 

 It has a pitch of forty-five degrees. 



The house here suggested and shown in section, 

 Pig- 53) is considerably smaller, being only 6 feet 

 high and 12 feet wide inside. These dimensions, of 



