STORING APPLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1728, 5 July 1884, Page 4

STORING APPLES.

There is not the least doubt that n huge nmou ;t of fruit—notably apples —is spoilt every season for want of being properly siored. And, if orchard-i.-!s in this province are about to

mlimvom'to »ro» apples to lust the wh.ilf) twelvemonth, the question ol murage is a mo-.t important one, Persons interested in fijrovviug fruit may be pleased to learn the metiiod which our Amenear. cousins are adopting to store peribhaiJe fruits in saftey for any hiiLiiii of lime. An Illinois Lorticukmist last year constructed a fruithouse, which proved so successful thai it is now taken as a model throughout the country. It is designed on the simplest scientific principles, and costs very little. The walls are double, being composed of two rows of wooden posts, each row boarded within and without. The intervening space, two and a-half feet wide, is packed as jtely as possible with straw. Above H • iv.ii sets of rafters, three feet apart, .. ards on their tipper sides, ami

r.iw completely tilling the space

i. ''us-en them. Over all is a cheap i:--.'!-'l nmf. Inside, the temperature mains approximately the same the a!:.ile year round. With Iho tilerm''HM'tiT lis" in the shade the fruit hniise s>eenis by contract like an ice dlar. In the depth of winter the spirited proprietor wades through the snmv to select fruit for market, and fin do the fragrant atmosphere inside " agreeably warm," and his apples " as ;-.-juii(l as when taken off the trees iiive mouths before."