h the roof. A door is made to each floor; in front
of the upper door is built a balcony reached by outside stairs. This
completes the dryer.

It may be used for storing hay, fodder, tools, etc., after the drying
season is over. The upper floor might be made removable. Many farmers
have a suitable building if the slatted floor is added. Any kind of a
wood or coal stove (or a brick furnace) is placed in the lower room and
a good heat kept up; maximum 150 degrees. The prepared fruit is simply
spread evenly upon the slatted floor from four to twelve inches deep.
Fire must be continuous, and a dryer eighteen feet square will dry 100
bushels in twenty-four hours.

Bleaching is done as follows: An upright box about two feet square and
twelve feet long is built outside against the balcony. A set of trays
are made to fit it; these trays have bottoms of galvanized-wire
screening. A pot of sulphur is kept burning on the ground under the
center of said box, the apples, peeled and cored, are placed in the tray
and the tray slid in above the sulphur. An endless chain mechanism moves
the tray up ten to twelve inches and another goes in; as they come to
the top an employee removes them and runs the fruit through a slicer and
then spreads it out on the drying floor. In twenty-four hours the
product will be dry, but not alike; they are then piled up under cover,
and pass through a sweat, making them alike throughout. As soon as cool
they are packed, and pressed into boxes for shipment. This dryer costs
but little, and the building may be used eight to ten months of the year
for any cleanly purpose. President Wellhouse has six of these dryers in
a row in one of his orchards. A single bleacher answers for several
dryers.

THE MOYER FRUIT EVAPORATOR.

Bill of lumber for dry-house: Four pieces 2x4, 10 feet long; flooring,
150 feet; 1x1 strips, for trays, 400 feet, lineal measure; 1x2, 47 feet,
lineal measure; 1x4, for tray rest in center, 47 feet, lineal measure.

How to build and operate: For the house or box part, take four pieces of
2x4, 56 inches long, and four pieces 2x4, 37-1/2 inches long; nail
together with the short pieces on the inside, lapping the long ones on
the end of the shorter--thus making a frame 52x37-1/2 on the inside.
This makes the sills and plates. Close three sides of this with matched
flooring, up and down, seven feet high; now you have a box seven feet
high, 52x37-1/2 inches. Leave the one side open to be clo