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barrel to each family in the United States. To supply one 

 barrel to each family in the United States requires 14,000,000 

 barrels, or at least five times as many as were produced last 

 year. 



It is a well known fact that the old orchards of New York are 

 failing, and in a few years will be gone entirely, and the new ones 

 are not as good bearers as the old ones, and the fruit inferior, 

 so that we will not long have a serious competitor in supplying 

 the apple trade with perfect "red apples." The export trade is 

 increasing and it is evident even now that we have exported 

 more apples of the crop of '89 than we ought to have done. 

 The favorite apple in the foreign market is the "King of Tomp- 

 kins County" and "Ben Davis," the former selling at 64.85 and 

 the latter at 64.75, November, '89, in Liverpool. The foreign- 

 ers will buy our apples at these enormous prices in preference 

 to their own at half the price. 



Mr. T. W. Hutchinson — My orchard contains Ben Davis, Jona- 

 than, Willow Twig, Gilpin, Rome Beauty, Winesap, and about 

 twenty varieties that were chosen because they did well in Ohio. 

 The Ohio selections are all worthless here, except the Maiden's 

 Blush and Winesap. We need a list of discarded varieties. 

 Apples that do well fifty miles north of us are nearly all worth- 

 less here. The Ben Davis is by far our best variety for com- 

 mercial purposes. The Maiden's Blush does well for early 

 autumn, and there is a season after it is gone and before winter 

 apples are mellow that is best supplied by Jonathans. These 

 three are the only varieties that I would like to plant in large 

 numbers in this locality, The Winesap does fairly well but it 

 produces so many water sprouts that it is twice as much work to 

 raise a tree as it is to raise one of the other three varieties, and 

 my trees have not produced half as many apples as the Ben 

 Davis, and don't sell as well. The Willow Twigs in my orchard 

 have two defects only. The first is their habit of growing in- 

 numerable branches. I think that if the limbs were cut back a 

 little they would grow about as tight as a cabbage head. The sec- 

 ond and real defect is that when they are old enough to produce 

 three or four bushels to the tree they begin to rot on the trees. 

 I hear of fine orchards of this apple less than twenty miles to the 

 west of us, while from the county joining us on the east, Law- 

 rence, they report still more rot than here. The Rome Beauty 

 is, perhaps, our finest apple, but it is a shy bearer in this local- 

 ity. The tree stands the winter well, but any injury to the tree 



