. Packing and marketing fruits; how fruits should be handled to carry to market in best condition and present most attractive appearance. is an attic room which willaccommodate twelve hundred empty barrels. Thebuilding cost twelve hundred dollars. Another very excellent building for the commonstorage of apples which has been frequently describedand which is certainly a model of its kind is thatshown in figure 8, and owned by Mr. T. L. Kinney,South Hero, Vermont. This house was built in 188 8and stands 30x50 feet on the ground. It has a base-ment which will accommodate 1,000 barrels, and themai
. Packing and marketing fruits; how fruits should be handled to carry to market in best condition and present most attractive appearance. is an attic room which willaccommodate twelve hundred empty barrels. Thebuilding cost twelve hundred dollars. Another very excellent building for the commonstorage of apples which has been frequently describedand which is certainly a model of its kind is thatshown in figure 8, and owned by Mr. T. L. Kinney,South Hero, Vermont. This house was built in 188 8and stands 30x50 feet on the ground. It has a base-ment which will accommodate 1,000 barrels, and themain floor will receive an equal number. There isan attic for the storage of empty barrels, coopersstock, etc. The walls are constructed in the follow-ing manner: The studding are 3x4 inches. On theoutside is a course of one-inch matched pine covered 36 FRUIT-GROWER, ST. JOSEPH, MO. with building paper and again with clapboards. Onthe sides of the studs small furring strips are runin. Upon these a lath and plaster coat is made fromstud to stud. This produces a double dead air the inside of the stud is another one-inch course. Fig, 8—Mr. T. L. Kinneys Storage House of matched pine covered by building paper and byone-half-inch boards all over the inside. There areglass windows and heavy matched board blinds. Thishouse cost fifteen hundred dollars and has beenentirely successful. Various other houses more or less like the twohere described have been built in all parts of thecountry. So far as the writer knows these have PACKING AND MARKETING FRUITS 37 proyed uniformly successful in the northern stateswhere they have been well built and intelligentlymanaged. In the southern states they are less satis-factory, and in any case they are unreliable whenmismanaged. The two important things to be looked after inbuilding these houses for common storage are (1)insulation, and (2) ventilation. Insulation is provided as described above by mak-ing very tight walls with dead air spaces
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