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ning, they certainly are good for nothing except for cider ; and it 

 seems too bad to let them go to waste and sell for practically 

 nothing, when, with proper care, they could be sold to canneries. 



There are some varieties of grafted apples which bring very 

 low prices when shipped into market green. These would be 

 equally as profitable if sold for canning. When you ship them, 

 you have to furnish the barrels, sort and pack them, be more 

 particular in sorting, and pay the freight to market. Taking 

 all this into consideration, one market will about balance the 

 other. 



I wish to impress these three things upon your mind, viz : you 

 should take better care of your natural fruit, pick the apples early 

 before they begin to soften, and use more care in handling them. 



Mr. Wheeler: Mr. President, I don't want any fruit grower 

 to go away and flatter himself that he can get a good price for 

 four or five wormholes in an apple not an inch and a half through. 

 When you come to work up an inferior grade or fruit for can- 

 ning purposes, the help that you employ, in the first place the 

 man that runs the machine to pare that apple, when he comes to a 

 small apple or one-sided one, drops it into the waste basket. He 

 isn't going to spend his time on it unless you stand right there 

 by him, he is going to drop it, and I don't blame him. When 

 you come to the girl who trims it, if there are quite a number of 

 worm holes in it, why she doesn't want to spend her time and she 

 throws it out. I am almost glad she does. I don't want her to 

 spend her time on that apple and get but very little out of it. So 

 don't think you are going to get something out of nothing. You 

 can't do it. When you take a good fair grade of apple that will 

 cost about seventy-five cents a barrel this year, of natural fruit, 

 and have a good crew to work them along, there is some fun in 

 seeing the stuff go through, if nothing more. 



Mr. DinglEy : In reply to the last speaker, I would say I 

 heartily agree with everything he has said. I would not give the 

 impression that we want this grade of apple, the' No. 3 and like that ; 

 but as we said in regard to evaporating apples, the No. 2 grafted 

 fruit was classed as the smaller, running a little below the ship- 

 ping size, and the No. 3 took in the one-sided, bruised and wormy 

 fruit. I would agree with him in saying that it is not profitable 

 for the canner to try to use wormy or bruised and one-sided 

 fruit. When this one-sided fruit comes to the paring knife, it 



