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apple, a great apple. And it is just so with other varieties of 

 fruit. The best quality of pears are not the commercial pears, 

 are not the ones you can make the most money out of raising. 

 You can't make so much money out of raising them and they 

 don't do it in the great pear growing sections, they don't raise 

 the Bartlett and the Sheldon and those pears ; they make their 

 money out of the Kieffer and the Kieffer pear is of poorer quality 

 than the Ben Davis apple ; and in berries, — strawberries, black- 

 berries, it is just the same. If you want quality, sentiment and 

 poetry and all that, go into some big apple like the Alexander 

 and Wolfe River and those things. — that is sentiment, I don't 

 quarrel with that, but if you are after money, you want some 

 late-keeping, hardy apples that bear young and are abundant 

 bearers, and not too large, and as solid as bricks, and that will 

 keep by the glut, and that haven't very good quality — of such is 

 the kingdom of Ben Davis apple. 



Air. Solon Chase: The Northern Spy is good enough 

 for me. 



Mr. Gilbert : Is it a fact that the Northern Spy is generally 

 troubled with trypeta? 



Member : Very frequently ruined entirely on account of the 

 trypeta. 



Mr. Chase: I have got 250 barrels of Northern Spies in my 

 cellar and I will give one dollar apiece for every trypeta found 

 in them. 



Member: That is all right. It is true just the same that the 

 trypeta very frequently gets into the Northern Spy, and almost 

 as frequently as into some of the fall apples. 



Mr. Gilbert : That doesn't accord with the experience of 

 some of our members at all. I would like to inquire whether 

 that statement generally holds true. We have got to be a little 

 careful in regard to the instruction we throw out in regard to 

 varieties. Is it true that the trypeta menaces seriously the 

 Northern Spy apples? 



Mr. Blossom : I will say that up to this year ever since the 

 trypeta appeared among -us, I have lost my Northern Spies — 

 utterly worthless up to this year. This year they are all right. 



Member: In Cumberland county they are very chary about 

 buying them. They are generally infested with trypeta. 



