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.section where I am acquainted are very largely taken care of, 

 picked up and put into the cellar in separate piles from the hand 

 picked apples, and the buyer is supposed to run them through 

 and get perhaps 50% out of them to put in barrels. And when 

 you ask what you get for your No. 2 apples, you get a good price 

 for them. I suppose you sell your apples the same price for ones 

 and twos and that you think the twos hurt the market enough, 

 make the price enough lower so that you don't really get much 

 for them. But it seems to me that that is a mistake. I have 

 had No. 2 apples bring more in Liverpool than No. i's. They 

 did in one shipment last winter. The No. 2 apple is usually 

 smaller, they go a good deal by weight there and the heavier 

 barrels will bring the most sometimes. They do in Liverpool, 

 and that is what we want to cater to. Our apples here in Maine 

 mostly go to Liverpool — if it wasn't for the Liverpool market 

 our apples wouldn't be worth the gathering — and we want to 

 cater to that market, and they use late keeping, shipping apples, 

 and there will be very little waste, surprisingly little if you have 

 those varieties for that market. They don't discriminate as they 

 do in New York and Chicago and those large American markets. 

 They pay a very good price for a No. 2 apple there in Liverpool, 

 and don't stop shipping your No. 2 Baldwins and Ben Davis 

 and other good apples. If you have this soft stuff, half of which 

 is exhibited here, it don't matter what becomes of it — graft your 

 trees. If you have good natural fruit, no matter if it is five 

 hundred years old, and it is still good and healthy, do as the 

 Bible said by the tree and you will have a young tree again, the 

 tree will renew itself. All these trees should be grafted, and 

 when you get these hard, late-keeping, winter varieties you won't 

 be troubled with waste and the evaporator and the canner will 

 have to change his business and go into something else. There 

 will be no more future for him here in Maine. And as to can- 

 ning apples, just by way of matter of interest they are paying 

 in New York now twenty-five cents a bushel for good grafted 

 fruit apples, Baldwins and Greenings, to go into the canning 

 shop. Some of those factories can 1,500 bushels a day and that 

 is only a little of their business, they are canning so much other 

 stuff, and pay only fifty cents a hundred pounds or twenty-five 

 cents a bushel and they get good large Baldwins and Greenings, 

 as large as your fist, most of the trouble they have the smut or 



