[Fruit culture] . usually pays the grower to sell hisciills rather than to evaporate them himself. However, thereare on the marketsmall evaporators thatcan be used on thefarm, and where nocommercial establish-ment is near, they canbe made an effectivemeans of preparingctdls for market. Oneof the simplest evap-orators for home use isillustrated in Fig. is simply a box thatis placed on top of akitchen range or fruit to be evap-orated is placed in thedrawers, or trays, a,which have galvan-ized wire screen bot-toms, and the heatfrom the fire in thestove does the evaporating. This e


[Fruit culture] . usually pays the grower to sell hisciills rather than to evaporate them himself. However, thereare on the marketsmall evaporators thatcan be used on thefarm, and where nocommercial establish-ment is near, they canbe made an effectivemeans of preparingctdls for market. Oneof the simplest evap-orators for home use isillustrated in Fig. is simply a box thatis placed on top of akitchen range or fruit to be evap-orated is placed in thedrawers, or trays, a,which have galvan-ized wire screen bot-toms, and the heatfrom the fire in thestove does the evaporating. This evaporator can be used, also,on a gas, gasoline, or kerosene stove. In Fig. 47 is shown an evaporator with a furnace fruit, when prepared for evaporating, is placed in the traysa, which are then put in place in the evaporator. The capacityof the machine illustrated is from 30 to 50 bushels of apples perday, but machines of this type that range in capacity from 4 to150 bushels per day can be Fig. 46


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