PACKING APPLES. 63 
keeping fruiv, vhe apples may be taken to it as soon as 
they are picked. It is an excellent plan to store apples 
on shallow shelves in cellars if one has the room and 
does not care to barrel them for market until spring. 
They can then be sorted at any time. Cider apples 
should be left on the ground in piles. They will lose 
some of their water and will make better cider. If they 
freeze a little on top they will not be damaged. 
If the house cellar will not keep apples well, or if the 
quantity of app'es to store is large, a fruit cellar should 
be built at some other place. Mr. Horace Rainey details 
his experience in keeping apples for market at Columbia, 
Tennessee, in the “‘Spirit of the Farm,” from which I 
extract as follows: ‘In the fall of 1882 I excavated a 
space eight feet deep, eight wide, and sixty feet long ; 
this I walled up and arched over with a nine-inch wall 
of brick. Over the arch I put a coat of cement, and 
over this I placed all the earth from the excavation, and 
at intervals in the arch of four feet I built small 
brick chimneys, or ventilators, which came out above 
the ground. I also made ventilators in each end. The 
door I placed in tlie north end. The floor I also laid of 
brick. The cellar being completed, the next question is 
to properly store the apples in it so as to economize in 
space. 
“*T had made several hundred slat-boxes or crates, each 
tc hoid one bushel. ‘These I carried to tle orchard and 
left as many as necessary under each tree. Each picker 
is provided with a small basket and a ladder, and is re- 
quired to leave off his shoes or to wear rubbers ; to handle 
the apples carefully, and to place them carefully, one at 
