164 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



house — at least, not for any place north of Virginia. 

 The temperature can be easily controlled by the 

 windows and the ventilators shown in the various 

 elevations. With the windows placed high up on the 

 sides, as shown in the elevation. Fig. 55, it will be 

 desirable to have guides placed inside the windows at 

 a distance of 6 to 8 inches in front of them, and extend- 

 ing 2 or 3 feet lower than the bottoms of the windows, 



FIG. 58 — END ELEVATION OF STORAGE HOUSE 



to deflect the cool air downward as it enters. Other- 

 wise the entire circulation will be in the upper part of 

 the room while the air will become stagnant near the 

 floor. 



The walls should be double thick. Inside they 

 should be boarded with matched lumber on the studs, 

 and then closely ceiled on top of this. The ceiling 

 should also be heavily painted. This is absolutely 

 essential. Outside they should have a sheathing of 

 inch lumber and a coat of building paper on top of 

 this, the whole to be covered with matched novelty 



