Show ventilated crates are fine for apple storage apples ore are best stored in ventilated crates crates stack better in storage space than either baskets or barrels and fruit cools quicker in crates than in the other containers and for other reasons keeps better then too it la Is usually desirable to grade and condition the fruit just before it Is put on the market and crates can be handled and emptied for resenting more conveniently than the other containers cellars vary considerably in their adaptability to storage of apples some are fairly satisfactory while others are poor cellars with furnace heat in them are quite satisfactory for storing fruit usually the chief fault with cellars tor for storing fruit ts Is that they cannot be properly ventilated and when a considerable quantity of fruit Is taken in it Is difficult to get the fruit quickly cooled then too it must be kept in mind that ground heat Is 50 degrees fan fah and this Is IS 18 or 20 degrees higher than the best temperature for keeping apples in storage in the early fall fail when days and nights are warm this temperature may be an a n advantage but later in the season it Is dini cult to keep the ordinary cellar cool enough for proper storage ol of apples |