roof,
according to the slope, and directly over the sorting end of the table.
This will give you light an average of thirty minutes more each day and
prolong the day's work that much, or at least make it possible to do
better work on cloudy days and in the evenings.

The building should be approachable on all four sides with the wagon,
and doors either sliding or hinged should open at least ten feet wide
for taking apples in and out. For example, I have my sheds arranged to
take the fruit as it comes from the orchard on one side of the building.
The number one apples go out one door, and in case I use a grader the
number two go out another side. The cider apples also take their route.
The fourth side is used for supplying empty barrels as needed. Thus you
see the necessity for getting to all four sides. On the side where the
filled barrels are loaded onto the wagon there should be a raised
platform so that the loading can be carefully and easily done. A bin for
the cider or vinegar apples should be built with a roof on same.

Low-wheeled, platform wagons are needed to haul fruit from the orchard
to the packing house.

_The standard barrel of three bushels_ capacity is used generally by the
commercial orchardist in preference to the box. Good hoops are growing
scarcer every year, and some, including myself, are using two or four of
the six hoops required of the twisted splice steel wire variety as being
both safer and more economical. In transit or in storage they hold
better and do not break and scatter the contents of the barrel over the
car floor or storage warehouse.

The best floor for the apple house is concrete. The next best is to
cover the ground with coal cinders and lay 2x4 flat on the cinders,
filling between them with cinders to a level and nailing the floor
boards to these 2x4. This gives a good solid floor at little expense.

The walls are of 4x4 uprights, about eight feet apart, resting on 8x8x12
concrete blocks with a half inch iron rod imbedded in the concrete and
countersunk in lower end of upright 4x4 to keep the latter in place.
Nail ties of 2x4 are used, and to these are nailed common lumber
surfaced. The roof consists of 2x4 or 2x6 rafters, usually three feet
apart, with 1x6 boards spaced about three feet apart as sheeting. The
covering in this case is of galvanized corrugated iron, suitable length,
of No. 26 gauge. The doors of this building should be on rollers, and
with two or more double d