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ate is similar to the common cold storage plant. In the 
warmer parts of the United States, artificial ice would 
have to be used where cars are iced for transit, so these 
pre-cooling plants are usually equipped with machinery 
for making artificial ice as well as for the cooling of the 
air to be run through the cars of loaded fruit. The 
Fig. 106.—DELIVERING BARRELED APPLES TO THE RAILROAD 
expense of such plants for the car system runs as high 
as $500,000 to $800,000. Most of them have thus far 
been operated by the railroad companies, while those of 
the box system are mostly operated by the various fruit 
growers’ exchanges. Owing to the great cost of the 
larger plants they must draw business from 25 to 50 
miles from the surrounding fruit sections, while the 
smaller plants are equipped in connection with the ware. 
