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tracted boforehaucl for the sale of the product at thirteen cents a 

 pound, at Augusta ; it is now worth eighteen cents in that market at 

 wholesale. It worked well, and my brother was very well satisfied 

 with what he had done with it, and intends to get a larger one next 

 3'ear and carr}' on that business on a more extensive scale. A good 

 many of the orchardists in Litchfield have become interested in the 

 subject and will go into the business next year. We get five pounds 

 of evaporated apple from a bushel. 



GiLHEKT. In the town of Greeen an evaporator has been operated 

 two seasons. Last fall a double machine was used, evaporating 

 more than one hundred bushels of apples a day. It is not expected 

 that when good apples sell for three dollars a barrel, evaporators 

 will pa^- this pripe and take them. We have apples of second qual- 

 ity among grafted fruit that we could not get as much monej- out of 

 if put upon the market ; the}' will sell for about enough to pay for 

 handling and that is all. That class of fruit can be put into evap- 

 orators and made profitable both to the seller and the purchaser. 

 Of course they must be put in at a lower price because not worth as 

 much. The price for this quality of fruit has been from twenty-five 

 to thirty-five cents per bushel at the evaporators. In York county, 

 where evaporators were first put iu operation in this State, they had 

 one or two very bountiful crops of fi'uit and prices run extremelj' 

 low\ A good many of the fruit growers in that section who raised 

 nice fruit shook it from the trees without any care whatever and sold 

 it for prices which satisfied them, to the evaporators, who took the 

 whole quantit}' as it was shaken from the trees. The cost of pick- 

 ing was slight and the growers were satisfied. But those were j-ears 

 of exceptionally low prices. 



The manufacturers do not pay as umch for native fruit because it 

 does not sell for as high prices ; the operation is a profitable one, as 

 otherwise the fruit is worthless. There is room for a great deal of 

 this work to be done and I have no doubt it will extend all over the 

 fruit growing section of the State. Our cheaper fruits will be put 

 into cash iu that waj'. Our earl}- fruits are so plentiful that the 

 market is glutted, — the}' have become almost unsaleable. I hope 

 those early fruits will be utilized by drying so they can be preserved 

 and carried to a profitable market. No. 1 grafted fruit probabl}' 

 would average six pounds of fruit to the bushel ; those of inferior 

 size and with worm holes which make considerable waste, I believe 

 average about five pounds to the bushel ; depending somewhat upon 



