. Agriculture of Maine : ... annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Agriculture -- Maine. Rear of Mr. Clark's Cold Storage—Filling Ice Box. begun to ripen they will gradually go on, as Air. Powell has said, they will gradually go on and ripen in your cold storage. Xow in running this house of mine, I found that I needed ice in it in winter just as much as I did in summer. Xow my house is built with a brick floor, except a concrete driveway nine feet wide and a walk to the work-room four feet wide, f built it of brick for this reason. If I put in a floor of wood
. Agriculture of Maine : ... annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Agriculture -- Maine. Rear of Mr. Clark's Cold Storage—Filling Ice Box. begun to ripen they will gradually go on, as Air. Powell has said, they will gradually go on and ripen in your cold storage. Xow in running this house of mine, I found that I needed ice in it in winter just as much as I did in summer. Xow my house is built with a brick floor, except a concrete driveway nine feet wide and a walk to the work-room four feet wide, f built it of brick for this reason. If I put in a floor of wood, or if I put in a solid concrete floor, as I found by some that have done it, the air in the house is liable to wither the fruit if the fruit is open, but with a brick floor there is the moisture gradually coming through that brick into the atmosphere which keeps the fruit. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Maine. Dept. of Agriculture. Augusta : [State of Maine, Dept. of Agriculture
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