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HOUSE- AND GARDEN 
March, 
1914 
Why The McCray Excels 
McCray Refrigerators have scientifically insulated walls that keep 
the warm air out and the cold air in. They keep perishable foods 
as perfectly, as if the refrigerator were frozen in a solid cake of ice. 
You must do more than keep warm air out and cold air 
in to insure perfect refrigeration of food. The cold air in the 
refrigerator — must circulate constantly. 
McCray 
Sanitary Refrigerators 
have an active circulation of pure, cold air that is constantly in motion and 
carries all food odors, impurities, etc. to the ice chamber where they are 
condensed on the ice and carried away through the water sealed drain pipe. 
The sanitary, snowy white linings of 
Opal Glass, Porcelain, White Enamel or 
Odorless White Wood are scrupulously 
clean. No germs can grow in the cold tem¬ 
perature. 
McCray Refrigerators were adopted for 
use in the U. S. Pure Food Laboratories after 
the most rigid comparison, and are used in 
thousands of the most luxurious private resi¬ 
dences, hotels, clubs and public institutions. 
A wide range of choice is offered either in stock sizes, (which can be arranged for outside 
icing) or built-to-order types on which we will gladly co-operate with your architect or builder. 
Write for Any of the Following Catalogs „• 
No. 91—Regular Sizes for Residences 
No. 73 — For Florists 
No. 50—For Hotels, Clubs and Institutions 
No. 69 — For Grocers 
No. 60 — For Meat Markets 
No. AH — Built to Order for Residences 
McCray Refrigerator Co., 693 Lake St., Kendallville, Ind. 
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ing we gathered the windfalls. These 
were sold as “drops” for as much as I 
have known the most perfect of fruit to 
bring. The grading and packing were as 
careful as ever. Buyers got an honest 
barrel. 
My methods were proved correct just 
in the nick of time. In the midst of the 
discouragement of spring I had left some 
trees half sprayed, and had not culti¬ 
vated the whole orchard. Scab, worms, 
curculio injury, lack of size and mis¬ 
shapen fruit came from these trees. 
Every bit of slackness in the care of the 
orchard was exhibited in the packing 
house. New methods, where properly 
carried out, had yielded big dividends. 
Picking into peach baskets and carrying 
these directly to the sorting table cut out 
the bruised apple. From the first day’s 
picking we threw out only 13/2%, while 
in the days of the former owner 25% 
sometimes reached the discard pile. I 
had faced prejudice in my handling of 
the orchard, and its ruin had been freely 
predicted. Facing, as it seemed in the 
early spring, two consecutive years of 
crop failure, I was wobbling in my faith. 
The man at the head gives the tone 
and sets the pace for the whole organiza¬ 
tion. Every employee reflects his atti¬ 
tude. Last year I went to pieces men¬ 
tally at the harvesting season. This 
spring I was down in the dumps, and 
work lagged; men were hard to get and 
almost impossible to keep. But when I 
took hold this fall with a hopefulness, 
energy and happiness, the whole tone was 
keyed up. Nobody else could get any 
help while we wanted it. Men made 
long, hard trips on the road, getting back 
late at night with cheerfulness. They 
went out into the country-side and sold 
apples. 
Although it has been a year of trial, 
we have pulled through, and a peace is 
dawning for us that we never could have 
found in the city. We have little money 
to spend, but we are laying up a compe¬ 
tence for the future in the growing value 
of the orchard and in our knowledge of 
agriculture. We have vegetables and 
fruit in the cellar — enough to last until 
the new crop; dried beans and peas; all 
sorts of canned produce. The cow gives 
us milk, cream and butter; the chickens 
keep us in fresh eggs, and supply an 
occasional dinner. We have hay in the 
barn for the horses and cow, and food 
in the cellar for ourselves. If money 
fails we go without sugar, coffee and 
tea, and the animals without grain. If 
his wage fails, the city man goes to the 
park bench to sleep and joins the bread 
line. Slowly we are finding the peace we 
sought. 
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