FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL. REPORT. 19 



Ontario except you got east of the hills or east of a piece of woods. 



Mr. Sherwood : About estimating your profits over a period of years. 

 Would 50% of your gross be profit and 50% expense? About what pro- 

 portion is it? 



Mr. Case: I couldn't do it as cheap as that. Over one-half is expense. 



Mr. Shenvood: Did you have half of the profit on the black board? 



Mr. Case: I had the Avhole of it. 



A Member: Where do the men put your apples when they are thinning 

 them? 



Mr. Case: On the ground. We are in the evaporating section. (Told 

 how he used to pare apples when he was a little boy and that they used 

 to dry about two bushels a day). Then father got one that would dry 

 five bushels a day, but we stood sorrowfully by one day and saw our 

 dryer that would dry five bushels per day go up into smoke. Then my 

 father got the idea of a dryer that would dry fifteen bushels per day. 

 I was asked to go down to Detroit and talk on evaporated fruits, and 

 I told them that as near as I could get the figures the Northern part 

 of Wayne County had produced 800 carloads of evaporated apples. Now 

 in order that you may fully appreciate this vast amount I will say that, 

 allowing GOO cases per car, we have 480.000 cases; allowing 50 pounds 

 per case we have 24 million pounds; allowing ( — ) pounds to the pie we 

 have ( — ) pies; allowing a pie to occupy a full space we have made 

 apples enough last year in a territoiw fifty by thirty miles to make a 

 string of pies across the continent to Liverpool, and another string from 

 Boston to San Francisco, etc., continuing a line on to Hawaii and 

 Manilla and still on, and we have 540, pies left for a fruit growers' 

 feast ; in fact, we only lack nine million pies to encircle the globe. 



A Member: Do you consider it necessary to put pears in a block? 



Mr. Case: I have a small block of Bartletts. (Described pear 

 orchard.) We had a bad job with the pears. They ripen late and we 

 lost them. We have grafted them all over to Bartletts. The Kiefl'ers 



are still in there. I grafted a few into ( ) a late summer pear 



that we pick with the black caps, and we get a very fair price for them. 

 The Kieffers we have never found anvthing they make a good union 

 with. 



A Member: How do you like the Kieffer? 



Mr. Case : I don't like them. 



A Member: Is your section anj'thing like the Hudson River section? 



Mr. Case : No, we can grow good pears there. The only Kiefl'er 



orchard I ever saw in my life belongs to Mr. Morrill of 



and he is growing some good Kieff'ers there. We are growing one but 

 not as good as his. We are making money on them, but I am expecting 

 the time to come when people will not have them at any price. 



Mr. Kendrick: Have you any trouble witli summer blight in the pear? 



Mr. Case: Yes, a little. 



A Member: Was it bad this year with the Kieffer? 



Mr. Case : No, not so bad with the Kieffer. 



A Member: How do you control blight in a pear tree? 



^Ir. Case : Cut it out and wipe the stem with corrosive sublimate. 

 The first infection is always during the bloom, and if you get it in 

 time you can check it, but if it gets by you and gets on the new growth 

 you will have trouble. 



A Member: I have some Kieffer pears and I am proud of them. I 



