. Packing and marketing fruits; how fruits should be handled to carry to market in best condition and present most attractive appearance. theory ofconstruction was simply to provide a well insulatedwall and then to cool down the storage chamber byventilation. Such houses or storage connpartmentsare no wall classed together under the name com-mon storage. Common storage is distinguishedfrom cold storage, the latter referring to suchhouses or chambers as are supplied with artificialrefrigeration. There has been a strong tendency in the last fewyears to do away with the common storage in favorof
. Packing and marketing fruits; how fruits should be handled to carry to market in best condition and present most attractive appearance. theory ofconstruction was simply to provide a well insulatedwall and then to cool down the storage chamber byventilation. Such houses or storage connpartmentsare no wall classed together under the name com-mon storage. Common storage is distinguishedfrom cold storage, the latter referring to suchhouses or chambers as are supplied with artificialrefrigeration. There has been a strong tendency in the last fewyears to do away with the common storage in favorof the genuine cold storage. Great improvementshave undoubtedly been made in the process of cold 34 FRUIT-GROWER, ST. JOSEPH, MO. storage, and the matter is much better understoodthan it was a few years ago. Such storage is there-fore both safer and cheaper. Nevertheless the com-mon storage has not altogether gone out of use. Oneof the largest dealers in New York State—a man ofwide practical experience in all systems of storage—recently told the writer that he would as soon haveapples in common storage as in the best cold n HI % In 1 Fig. 7—Mr. Greens Storage House This is perhaps an extreme view, but it shows thatthe difference between the two systems is not sog: aat as we have sometimes been led to believe. The construction of a house for common storagemay best be understood by examining one of two con-crete cases. Figure 7 represents the storage houseof Mr. Charles L. Green, East Wilton, Maine, whichwas built in 1903. This building is 30x40 feet, with PACKING AND MARKETING FRUITS 35 12 foot posts upon the sills. It also has a cellar orlower story dug out of a gravel bank and facingtoward the south. There is a large door to this base-ment story so that a load of apples can be backed inwithout unloading. The cellar walls are b*uilt ofquarried granite laid solid in cement. The underpin-ning is of granite laid in Portland cement and linedwith brick . The basement wi
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