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picks around the tree. If for sale, the apples are barreled at once ; if put 

 put away for winter, they go into the cellar. 1 have my most careful man 

 in the cellar, usually myself, where I pour the apples in bins of different 

 depths, according to the variety of the apples, from fifteen to thirty-four 

 inches. The Pryor's Red will bear fifteen inches; the Pippins thirty- 

 four inches. 



The Secretary — I want to hear from Mr. Bryant, who has had 

 large experience in keeping apples for marketing in early spring. 



Mr. Bryant — I have handled some apples. If 1 understand the 

 Secretary, he wants to know how we prepare apples for market in the 

 spring. My practice has been this : Have them picked carefully from 

 the tree in small baskets, and carried to a place where I have a platform 

 of boards. Here the apples are assorted ; the good, salable apples are 

 put into barrels and headed up — I do not press them at this time — and 

 when it is convenient I take them to the cellar, and they are never dis- 

 turbed till they are wanted to go to market. They are then assorted and 

 re-barreled ; the first layer is put in by hand stem down, the barrel full is 

 shaken down and pressed, and sent to market. I keep my cellar as cool 

 as possible and not freeze much. 



REPORT UPON THE FUTURE APPLE. 



Dr. Warder, from the Committee on the Future Apple for Illinois, 

 presented the following : 



Your committee, after consultation upon the matter of producing a 

 valuable orchard fruit that shall be supremely excellent, and shall be 

 known as the apple of Illinois and the West, have reached the following 

 conclusions : 



That, to accomplish so great an achievement, and one of so great 

 importance to the people, will require long, continued efforts, and the 

 diligent application of scientific principles in fertilizing the germs of 

 flowers with pollen from other varieties, so as to unite the best and most 

 desirable qualities. 



That few men can afford to bestow this labor and patience with the 

 uncertainty of success, and therefore we recommend offering a very lib- 

 eral premium for the production of such a winter apple as shall meet this 

 great want. 



We further advise that when candidates for this premium shall be 

 offered in competition, the decision shall be referred to a select commit- 

 tee of this Society. 



JNO. A. WARDER, ' 



J. S. JOHNSON, I Committee 



JONA. HUGGINS, ^ committee. 



D. B. WIER, 



