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them out on their wharves in great piles, seven or eight feet high. In 

 Moscow they had a pile seven or eight feet high, and they sell them to 

 the peasants for a small copper coin. 



In Central Europe the fruit is considered a great deal of a luxury, 

 and when I went around through their farms, a fanner thought he had 

 quite an orchard when he had twelve American trees. You can tell their 

 apples all the time, and the only ones I saw were in Western Europe, 

 they were striking afifairs as compared with ours. Those that grow 

 there are generally pale, and they are small and the character of apples 

 I don't think any of us would eat. The chief competitors of the Amer- 

 ican apple in the English market, are those from New Zealand, and 

 there a great lesson could be learned by apple growers, viz. : How to 

 ship them and to pack them. 



I don't think it is the province of the farmer and fruit grower to 

 learn how to ship them and make costly experiments. I think that is the 

 province of those who deal in fruits. I think that is one of the great 

 problems that we can settle in the future, and one thing that ought to 

 be encouraged by those engaged in the growing of fruits. People ought 

 to determine what should be done with these fruits in order to get them 

 into the open market. The apples come from New Zealand, and cer- 

 tainly they ought to come from the United States, which is not half the 

 distance that it is from New Zealand to London, and they should go to 

 Berlin, where they will pay high prices. The mere fact that they have 

 not got them, and that they might be there if we took the opportunity, 

 is a thing that is rather encouraging and I can't put it strong enough. 

 I say I can't put it strong enough the fact that it ought to be encouraged, 

 and ought to echo what Mr. Barnes has said, that nobody ought to be 

 afraid to grow more apples. They may not be able to sell a great many 

 of them here, but the chances seem very, very good to sell them across 

 the water, provided they are good apples. Now if the packing is done, 

 as I have seen it done, without mentioning any names, in several states 

 surrounding this one this fall, it would not raise the reputation of the 

 fruit at all. I was present when a lot of fruit was opened in New York 

 from the Missouri market in the early part of Octobef, and there was 

 about ten barrels of Missouri apples, and every one of those barrels was 

 rejected by prospective buyers on account of the poor quality in the cen- 

 ter of the barrel and the good fruit on the top. One man said, that any- 

 one that would pack them that way, that he would not have anything to 

 do with, and that is what we have to guard against in shipping them to 

 other countries ; and that is a problem that I don't think the fruit farmer 

 is justified in going into, but instead the one that ships a great many 

 apples. 



