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extent for the different companies, but the following 
will give a fair average for the more important storage 
companies: 
AVERAGE CHARGES IN CHICAGO STORAGE 
Per month Per season 
Eggs, per 30 doz. case........... 15 cents 60 cents 
Butter, per 100 Ibs.............. 25> -48 1.00 
Cheese, per 100 Ibs.............. 20 Tp of 
Apples, per barrel............... 15‘ 50. 
Apples, per box...............55 10. 8 35 «f 
Lemons, per box................ 10° 4 40 ‘ 
Oranges, per box..............-. tas 30 
Dried fruit, per 100 Ibs......... 8 « 35," 
Dried nuts, per 100 lbs........... 10“ 40 << 
Advantages of Public Storage.—There are certain 
well-understood and well-recognized advantages to be 
gained from the storing of fruit. Some of these are of 
primary importance to the producer, while others are 
more or less in the interest of the consumer. These may 
be listed as follows: (1) To prevent the fluctuation of 
prices by offering too much fruit at any one time. (2) 
To give a large variety for the consumer by lengthening 
the keeping season of any one kind of fruit. (3) To 
keep the fruit for a much longer period, thus giving 
an opportunity to lengthen or even up the supply. (4) 
To permit the use of more perishable kinds of fruit. 
These reasons are so obvious, and have been commented 
upon so much that little need be added. 
It is worth while to emphasize the fact that people 
living in the large cities of the Eastern and Central states 
would have a very meager supply of fresh fruit during 
the greater part of the year were it not for the public 
