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white apples, about $100. If he has bought his apples for 20 cents per 

 bushel and managed carefully, he has made from $25 to $30 for his day's 

 work, or between two and three thousand dollars for a season of ninety 

 days. With good storage for apples the season may be prolonged another 

 month. If the owner of the evaporator is also the worker of his own 

 apples, it is so much the better. 



Just here I wish to say that the importance of this industry can not be 

 estimated by the per cent, of profit that may be realized by the man or 

 company that may come into your vicinity and erect a large factory, buy 

 his or their apples at the lowest price possible, hiring all help at the low- 

 est prices, and then, at the end of the season, taking away his gains to be 

 spent in some other place; but by the smaller evaporator owned by the 

 men who own the apples or do the work, also in the work that it gives to 

 every person in the community and the money that it puts into circulation. 



SOME ACTUAL FIGUKES OF PKODUGTION. 



As an example of the amount of money brought into a place through 

 this source, I will give you a few figures. In the year 1887, Mr. A. B 

 Williams, a merchant in the little village of Sodus, N. Y., bought 3,500,000 

 pounds of white apples at an average of seven and one half cents per pound 



For which he paid 1262,500 



300,000 pounds chops, 3^ cents ._ 9,000 



600,000 pounds skins and cores, 2}4 cents 15,000 



125.000 pounds dried berries, black-caps, 22 cents 27,000 



6,000 pounds plums, 10 cents 600 



4,000 pounds peaches, 12 cents 480 



In all S315,080 



These figures are reliable, as I took them from the books. Other buyers 

 would easily have carried the sum total j)aid out in that village to half a 

 million dollars, which is no small sum to be divided in a community. 

 And further, you must remember that this is shared, by every man and 

 woman, boy and girl, that could possibly be spared from other work. 

 Let me take you for a moment into the storehouse where these apples are 

 handled. First, in the room where the apples are received, is one man 

 weighing and two men handling bags and two emptying them. Next, in 

 the packing room, is the superintendent, one weigh-man, five packers, 

 four facers, and six ring-pickers — seventeen persons in all. The six ring- 

 pickers pick out the best rings for facing in the boxes. The 

 facers arrange these rings on the bottom of the boxes, this side being 

 opened first; the boxes hold 50 pounds each. It required 70,000 of these 

 boxes to pack the white apples bought by the above named firm, and they 

 loaded 140 cars. The head of one box-making firm in the same village 

 tells me that in that year he made 75,000 fifty-pound boxes, using 32 car- 

 loads of pine lumber, or 800,000 feet of half inch boards, 600 pounds of 

 glue, 2,500 pounds of nails, and employed seven men and two boys. 



The packing of the apples began Sept. 1 and gave employment to the 

 help until the following April. 



WHEEE IT IS MAEKETED. 



The question naturally arises, where does all this fruit find a market? 

 Dealers in New York write me that Germany and Holland are their 



