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Pago 13THK TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1950
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We plan to offer local growers a full scale community facility through
the operation of a modem cold and dry storage' warehouse. With that end
in view, alterations and new construction have been progressively made
at our plant in Exeter. The pressing need of such cold and dry storage
facilities by producers in this mid-western portion of Ontario' are fully
realized. Up to the present growers are entirely dependent upon the
wholly inadequate facilities of their own root-house storage. These already
completed and projected developments, of themselves, open up a prime
opportunity for the storing and marketing of cash crops on a hitherto
unrealized scale.
A Community Refrigeration, Dry and Cold Storage Centre to Serve Growers* Needs
The new plant, .with its improved storage and marketing
facilities, can progressively provide the needed facilities that this
rich agricultural area requires to take its place as an important
marketing point. The benefits to be shared by growers in this dist
rict include the following: (1) open up hitherto untapped markets;
(2) storage at harvest time when prices are low, and selling at
Aimes when consumer demand ensures high prices.Company’s cold and dry storage plant at Exeter, Ontario.
Dry and cold storage facilities are the basic need around which
growers’ plans and marketing plans must be built. The storage
facilities to be provided by Huron Cold Storage Company Limited
will permit growers to adopt a wider crop policy, thus opening up
bigger profit possibilities. It has been established in other market
ing points having cold and dry storage facilities that land values,
over a period of time, have advanced many times in value.
Equipped to Process 300,000 Bushels of Turnips Annually
For the past seventeen years the management of Huron Cold Storage
Company Limited have shipped from 100,000 to 150,000 bushels of
turnips a year to its established wholesalers. With our added facilities
this production can be doubled. The turnip operation — washing, waxing
and packaging — will be confined to the second floor of the warehouse,
so allowing more room for storage purposes.
Up to the present our organization has been solely engaged in the
processing and marketing of turnips. In the 1950 crop season we will be
able to supply our regular wholesalers — who up until now had purchased
turnips only — with a varied selection of “fresh market” produce. Our
recent survey disclosed that local growers will co-operate by growing the
following items on a contract basis:
Turnips, Beets, Carrots, Parsnips, Onions, Cucumbers, Cabbage, Potatoes, Celery, Lettuce and Cauliflower.
Our Dry or Cold Storage Facilities Can Handle
50,000 Bushels of Mixed Vegetables
The drawing alongside is our NEWLY COMPLETED DRY —35
DEGREE — STORAGE room. Its dimensions are 110 by 80 feet
(or 84,000 cubic feet). The room has 4 inches of rock-wool in
sulation and its Sensatherm temperature controls and humidity
regulators, operating automatically, make possible the refrigeration
storage of all the “fresh market” vegetables mentioned above, with
the exception of celery.
THIS COMPLETED FACILITY, which is situated at the east end
of our first floor, has storage space for approximately 50,000
bushels of vegetables. The refrigeration installation consists of a
“FREON” (fan circulated) unit capable of a storage load of 85,000
British Thermal Unit hours, and is able to handle 3,000 bushels
of vegetables a day at 50 degrees — and cooling same to 35 degrees.
OTHER COMPLETED IMPROVEMENTS to the building consist
of: (1) reinforcements of abuttments and building columns, (2)
essential drainage and tiling in basement, (3) the laying of an
entire concrete floor to the basement and ramp and, (4)' renovat
ing of the interior and exterior of the warehouse building. These
improvements were undertaken and completed to provide adequate
service to growers in the coming crop season.
Projected Refrigeration Installation for Huron Cold Storag e^Company Limited
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4At an early date the installation Of a modern, fully
complete, refrigeration unit will be started. This unit will
be placed in the west half of the Warehouse basement and
will control eight cold storage rooms with connecting cor-
ridor, as shown in the above drawing. The entire plant will
be under <fully automatic control and operation. Each in
dividual room will have a direct reading temperature re-
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Corder* By this means ah accurate record can be maintained,
so ensuring efficient plant operation. Each room is designed
to store every kind of produce under exacting control and
air purification. Noxious odors from one product cannot,
Under any circumstance, permeate to other produce stored
within the building. Every effort will be made to have this
installation ready for the 1950 crop*
. . * drop in and see these newly Completed facilities for
yourself. Check their value against your personal needs.
* . . bring in the Survey sheet we recently sent you —and
let Us discuss contracts.
HURON COLD STORAGE CO., LIMITED
Exeter, Ontario ‘Phone Exeter 11