New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-16
FRUIT PRESERVING HOUSES.
Fruit Preserving House In Cievelasd-
How IL 10 Made-Appies and Grapes ID
July-Coss Of smaller Houses-A Fer.
mcs's Preserving House-Praia fer the
Table.

| From Our Special Correspondent
DoSoolA Union County H.. Aug q. 1855
Much has been said and thought of preserving
fruit and vegetables by Of ice aud properly csn'
structed houses visited the Fruit Preserving House
at Cleveland built under the patent and supervision a
Benjamin Nyce. A. NJ.
The house is on Kinsmsnst. 1t is 81 by IS q feet
posts with an extension under the same roof Of y v
- feet The walls double, 81 feet thick. filed with
sawdus planning mill shsvings The inside preserv.
ing three in number with sheet iron part.
tions OF No. 26 iron nailed TO studdng. On each side
are shelves about two feet apart reaching seven feet
high The floor is Of galvanized iron. and there arc
walks raised about two feet made Of plank. For .
foundation there coating Of pitch and tar one inch
thick this placed shsvings three feet thick This
covers the roo floor which is placed the bttern OF
refuse Of salt which Is dried TO powder at the works.
The amount this foor Is twenty barrels. This SUD-
stance absorbs the moisture Of the fruit and becomes
fluid From 1000 bushels of fruit 50 gallons week arc
drawn out by pipe this is dried on sheet-iron pans
and again put the oor which can be done at leass
thirty tues At Saginaw the salt bitteru is one Ath OF
the brne Salns much less 1t costs nothing bot tao
freight aud preparation.
The upper room has floor Of ice feet thick Out u
feet are enough for the year, which is covered WITH
the louise is used When much fruit is PIT in IL melts
fast The ice is made in cold weather by man walk
ing around all night with hose from which water runs
1t freezes fast he goes around When was there.
Juy o5 the ice had melted foot aud half Mr. Nycs
states that wheat cha is the best nonconductor next
clover hull chat next planiny.mi shavings next saw.
dust and last charcoal Still. charcoal has superios
value. because it will not absorb moisture He adds
bas, hova oartfo
in contact and that consequently when saw dust 10
used should not be closely packed 1t may be trodss
solid as to DO worthless. Still there should be va
cancies He repeatedly mentioned wheat chat as So
perior TO an thing else.
The house Is TO be kept the year round at tempersr
ture Of "a degrees degrees above freezing Constants
watch and are required In the walls OF oacl o.
the three is pane Of glass. and behind snen
which Is placed thermometer. which indicates t1s
temperature inside hence need not go In 70 asceH
tain this The by double DOORS cafefdly
made and with entries between AS one goes In ths
door behind il closed. Things look IKE Ji" w
pitch dark Tie bitern Of salt absorbs all the moist
n,s ors se. xo,sr standing on the iron floor BY the
HIGHT Of the lamps the house is always dry not drop
anvubsrs ia soen. Thermometers hang in the rooms.
Thew rise when one enters. One makes short visits.
u that when the house Is filed with fruit the air
60 mnure that gb. will 90 ont and that folks will die
tine same a., in damp wells. This can be so only in part
for some one gets ont fruit ought to have inquired
u fuit /, not affected in some way in such an stmos-
,hsre To preserve fnit the following conditions are
REQUIRED. Goodness. dryness, purity, equality Of tenn
praturc darkness and the exclusion much as possi-
bic OF the great agent Of decomposition. oxygen.
And yet failures will result unless the fruit Is put IN
at proper stage OF ripeuess. 1t must not be in
saccharne state for this the next to decay It must
be that Of starch imperfect rpeness and when placed
in the house very slowly viii reach the Sc line" %
ripe and eating stage There is onethrd
ton 10 the starch condition than in the sac A-e
percentage Of loss of evaporation where 80
are observed is about per cent.
1t was q hot day when we went l.
TAs OHIO Farmer was with Imms Aa
pierced through my pantaloons as II
In raw Winter day. We saw Co e. .Iarc. sf ..lsf
a. when picked Perhaps the H. rDr w.. .i sIate t.
fresh. but 1t was near this. A fr- CRISP
and juicy. but very cold. T. .e. sa,
and piuespplss and ohesrie. q