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• Now we will commence on apples. — Evaporating: Now, here 

 I would recommend having evaporators and canners and such things as 

 that. In one county in New York it is safe to say that there is an evap- 

 orator every mile through.out that whole county, and so they commence 

 just as soon as tlie apples begin to fall with their evaporating. That has 

 many advantages. It employs plenty of home labor. The fruit is packed in 

 cheap packages and it is cheaply transported, and so there are many ad- 

 vantages in evaporating the apples. Now, in many sections of New York 

 for for the past four or five years, when apples have been higher than 

 usual, I have known them to evaporate their whole crop. I think it would 

 be a better way to evaporate the poor ones and market the finer ones, 

 and so get the better prices. I doubt if they will do that as a regular 

 practice in the future. 



Relative to apples, when they are at a low price. I looked up Stew- 

 art — I have his book on feeds and feeding, and I find apples rank in 

 value between beets and turnips, and at the present price of grain and 

 other things they would be worth fifteen cents a hundred pounds for 

 feeding purposes to large stock, and yet in New York in 1896 the farmers 

 hauled ofif thousands of bushels at five cents a hundred pounds. Of course 

 they didn't have the stock and didn't know the value of feeding them, 

 but apples are quite valuable for feeding. 



. Now we come to picked fruit. This is really the important part of 

 this whole subject. How shall the grower dispose of his hand picked 

 fruit? There is a good deal of fruit that is hand picked that is not good, 

 and now we will say, the evaporator comes in again to handle this poor 

 fruit. 



Now, fruit should be put up in an attractive form so as to entice 

 people. One of our traveling men called on a merchant and tried to sell 

 him some lemons. He said, 'T don't want any ; I won't buy any more 

 until I sell those." He had perhaps a quarter of a box that were exposed 

 to the atmosphere and shriveled up. The traveling man spoke up and 

 says what do want for them ? He says, seventy-five cents, and he paid 

 him' the seventy-five cents and dumped the lemons into the swill barrel 

 and turned around and sold the man three boxes of lemons, and without 

 doubt those three boxes were disposed of quicker than he did the quarter 

 of a box. 



Now we come to the culls. They are always in the way. They 

 are in the way of the grocers. Then the evaporator comes in and we can 

 then save the whole crop. 



Now then we come to how to reach the consumer. This is rather 

 a delicate subject for me, an aj^ple buyer to speak of. and only on account 

 of my talk with Col. Evans this morning, would I have been willing to put 



