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many parts of the State, sells well but requires extreme care in 

 handling. The Spy is an excellent apple, but requires a long time 

 to come to profitable bearing, a good variety for us to plant for the 

 benefit of the next generation. The King sells high in the English 

 market, but as far as m^^ information extends is a shy bearer and 

 not profitable to raise. The Roxbury Russet, althoua^h not a good 

 cooking apple, and only a fairly good eating apple, fills a space in 

 the year when most other kinds are gone, and for a short time sells 

 high and is a profitable apple to raise on the right kind of soil in a 

 limited amount, but if as many were put on the markets as there are 

 Baldwins large quantities of them would perish. The R. I Green- 

 ing is a hard}' tree, au abundant bearer, and usually selU at the same 

 price of the Baldwin and is gaining favor in tiie English markets 

 notwithstanding its objectionable color. It has the habit of falling 

 from the tree before maturit}', and should be planted where not 

 exposed to the wind. It thrives wonderfully pknted at the bas ; of 

 a hill where its roots extend in one direction into stony land and 

 the other into moist or swale land. — S. R. Leland, before State Fair 

 Fruit Grower's' Convention. 



DISPOSAL OF NOS. 2 AND 3 APPLES. 

 When I commenced raising quite large quantities of apples I was 

 sorely puzzled to know how to manage to get an^- money out of them 

 at certain times. Nice No. I's were no trouble to me at any time. 

 Once in a while a gale just at harvest time would strip the trees of 

 a nice crop and ruin them, for No. I's and No. 2's were not worth 

 barreling and sending to market, neither was fall fruit. I would 

 sometimes sell them for a few cents per bushel. I next tried mak- 

 ing cider; that did not pa^- much, and besides it was too mean a 

 business especially the selling of it. Making pure cider vinegar 

 does not pay when competing with acid vinegar. I tried feeding to 

 stock, but was not satisfied with that. When evaporators first came 

 into ray vicinity, I sold to them and that paid me some better. Then 

 I got one of my own and that does better still. Consumers demand 

 that everj'thing we have to sell shall be placed on the market in the 

 best possible shape and as nearly ready for use as it can be, and also 

 in condition that it can be kept so for a length of time without be- 

 coming damaged. The most successful producers of any article are 

 those who are alive to the necessit}' of keeping up with the demand 



