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seems to be the one necessary item. With the brine system, if one 

 owns it himself, he can sell his fruit at any time and stop storage 

 and insurance charges. If your apples were in some commercial 

 storage, the fixed charges for the season must be paid, no matter 

 ^vhen the fruit is disposed of. 



I haye been working on the storage deal this fall and haye de- 

 cided on a io,cx)o barrel grayity brine plant for our own use. Will 

 put the apples in barrels, heading them without pressing, putting 

 them into storage as soon as picked without sorting. If help is 

 scarce, sorting the fruit on rainy days or between kinds, or after 

 the crop is entirely picked. If help is plenty will keep a sorting gang 

 at the storage drawing all the apples there to sort. Should we leaye 

 our apples to sort until picking is done, it would benefit the 

 eyaporator man by allowing him to eyaporate the drops before they 

 decayed and holding the picked culls to the last. 



We will haye our storage house on our farm between the steam 

 and trolley tracks, with siding from both. A\'ill also haye a large 

 eyaporator on same siding, thus insuring short hauls for picked and 

 dropped apples. 



Storage is absolutely necessary and notwithstanding so much 

 rot published for the last few years in city papers about storages 

 making liying more expensiye, it tends to equalize the cost of liv- 

 ing. Without storage it would either be a feast or a famine, a glut 

 in the market and produce of all kinds selling below cost of pro- 

 duction and then a market bare of the same things that had been 

 wasted for the lack of storage facilities. Cold storage is an infant, 

 but a few years old, l^ut he is growing. ]\Ir. Case, of Sodus, one 

 of the best growers in the state said that he lost a lot of apples this 

 year at the last end, the apples just got ripe and dropped off. If 

 he had had a storage to haye drawn his unsorted apples, he could 

 haye saved his entire crop, sorting them after the apples were all 

 picked. 



Mr. Lewis. \Miat is your plan in regard to temperature? 

 Mr, Allis. I never ran a storage, but think a temperature of 

 from 30 to 32 would be right, or probably to 35. 



R. M. Eldon. \\t would have no difficulty in getting natural 



ice. 



C. J. Tyson. Do you know the quantity of ice needed? 



Mr. Allis. yir Cooper came to see me last week. He said 

 that for a house holding 10,000 barrels, it would require 1,000 tons 

 of ice in a year. 



C. J. Tyson. How late would you figure on holding the apples 

 with that quantity of ice? 



Mr. Allis. I think that their idea until the following spring, 

 until June. ]\Iy idea has been for some time that many apples have 

 been nearly ruined in storage. They come out from in the center, 

 while apples kept in a cool cellar, about 40 degrees, are kept in bet- 

 ter condition than in the cold storage. I think apples will go to the 

 consumer in better shape from the excessive cold of the cold 

 storage. 



Member. Would apples freeze at 32? 

 Mr. Allis. Xo, not in a barrel. 



