Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1895. 



The Honorable Co7n7nissioner of Agriculture, Albany : 



Sir. — This pajjer, designed to be published under the auspices of 

 the Nixon bill (chapter 230, Laws of 1895) deals with the second 

 most important product of evaporators in western New York. The 

 first place must be given to evaporated apples. Besides these arti- 

 cles, the following products are evaporated in the east: peaches, 

 pears, quinces, plums, cherries, currants, potatoes, peas, corn, pump- 

 kins. There is no important account of the evaporating industry- 

 known to me, and I have therefore taken some pains to describe the 

 mechanical part of the business, an account which I hope later to be 

 able to extend. I am so fully convinced of the value of the evapo- 

 rator to all persons who grow fruit, that I have extended this narra- 

 tive somewhat beyond the requirements of the subject immediately 



in hand. 



L. H. BAILEY. 



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