. Barn plans and outbuildings . thatany practical builder can follow the general outlines ofthis plan and make the necessary adaptations under anycircumstances which make a similar construction seemdesirable. AN APPLE EVAPORATOR The evaporated apple industry centers in a few townsin Wayne County, N. Y., bordering the southern shore ofLake Ontario. Here almost every farm has a large appleorchard, and from a very early time the drying of thisfruit has been a special industry. Out of these years ofexperience has grown the present kiln or dry house andthe labor-saving machinery. The farm dry house
. Barn plans and outbuildings . thatany practical builder can follow the general outlines ofthis plan and make the necessary adaptations under anycircumstances which make a similar construction seemdesirable. AN APPLE EVAPORATOR The evaporated apple industry centers in a few townsin Wayne County, N. Y., bordering the southern shore ofLake Ontario. Here almost every farm has a large appleorchard, and from a very early time the drying of thisfruit has been a special industry. Out of these years ofexperience has grown the present kiln or dry house andthe labor-saving machinery. The farm dry house asnow constructed usually consists of two rooms, eachsixteen feet square. Whenever the land permits it is builtupon a hillside, which admits of a deep basement under AN APPLE EVAPORATOR 367 one end of the building, while the floor of the other endis level with the ground, as shown in Figure 358. Inthe outside or receiving room, h, the apples are pared,oleached and sliced, while the inner room, a, is usedexclusively for Fig. 358—SHOWING ARRANGEMENT OF EVAPORATOR The peculiarity of this drying room is in the floor,which is made of wooden strips about one inch wide an^lthick, and beveled on both sides, set wide side up andabout one-half inch apart on top. This makes a slattedfloor, the spaces of which are wider apart on the underside than on top. The heat passes through this form of 368 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS floor better than one made of square-edged strips. Inthe roof is a ventilator, through which the heated air andvapor pass off. The basement, c, below the drying floor, is generallytwelve feet high and sometimes more. In the center isplaced a large furnace, in which a coal fire is kept dayand night. To assist in distributing the heat evenly, thegases pass through pipes that circle around the roomabout two feet from the floor above, Figure 361, finallyuniting and entering a chimney at the side of the building.
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