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Markets. What are the markets? Perhaps we can divide 

 these into groups. First, the local market. That is the 

 market where the producer can get into direct touch with the 

 consumer, retailers, or retail stores where they are selling 

 these apples. The other market is what we term the outside 

 market. This is the market in which you have to go through 

 other agencies to reach the consumer of your product, where 

 you ship to wholesale houses, jobbing houses and foreign mar- 

 kets. So then we have two markets, the local market and the 

 outside market. 



Storage of apples. Apples are stored in three ways : First, 

 in the cellar of the grower; second, in the country warehouse; 

 third, in the large city cold storage plants. The storage is the 

 most important factor in the production and selling of apples 

 for the majority, but they are sold throughout the entire 12 

 months. The consumption will be more in some months than in 

 others. That varies with the different localities. You are 

 harvesting within a short two months time during the year. 

 Now there comes to us the question of storage. You can't lay 

 down any definite rule as to whether it is advisable for them to 

 store their crops in their own cellars or to ship to a large city 

 for cold storage. What might be a good thing in this section 

 might not be for those 25 miles away; it is the storage of apples 

 as well as the condition of the market. 



Varieties or classes of Apples. I am told by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture that we have 2,000 different 

 varieties of apples. Generally we have from six to ten varie- 

 ties classed in three groups. When I enumerate, you must 

 remember that this is not a hard and fast rule. I don't want 

 anyone to say that I am in the right, for different men's opinions 

 vary in different localities. The same buyers will have different 

 opinions of it. 



1. Eating apples. 



2. Cooking apples. 



3. Apples for both eating and cooking. 



Of these varieties the leading eating apples are Mcintosh 

 Red, Gravenstein, Wealthy and Snow ; for cooking : Baldwin, 

 Greening and Ben Davis ; for cooking and eating : Northern 

 Spy, Wolf River an-d Russet. All of the other varieties will fall 

 into one of these three groups. If you go out into the street, 



