430 BOARD OF AGEICULTURE. 



By-Law Establishing What a No. 2 Apple Shall Be.— The following, 

 determining what a No. 2 apple shall be, was made a by-law of this asso- 

 ciation August 3, 1900, and appears among the by-laws. 



No. 2 apples shall be hand-picked from the tree; shall not be smaller 

 than two and one-quarter inches in diameter. The skin must not be 

 broken or the apple bruised. This grade must be faced and packed with 

 as much care as No. 1 fruit. 



Packing Apples.— Remove one head and nail all hoops secure. Place 

 carefully a row of choice apples; stem end down, average size, color and 

 quality to be a fair sample of the contents of the balance of the barrel. 

 Place the barrel on a solid platform or heavy board and proceed to fill 

 carefully, shaking the same as you put in the fruit. The barrel should 

 be shaken solid after each bushel of apples is put in. It will not do to 

 set the barrel on the ground, as the idea of shaking is to make the contents 

 as solid as possible. The barrel should be filled an inch above the chime 

 after being shaken solid. 



The bottom then should be pressed in with an apple press and fast- 

 ened securely either by nailing or head lining, turned over and the name 

 of the apple marked plainly on the faced end, as what was originally the 

 bottom of the barrel is now the top and becomes the end opened and dis- 

 played when on sale.— Year Book, Apple Shippers' Association of the 

 United* States. 



i 

 THE SMALL APPLE PACKAGE. 



Selling Problems.— What shall we do with our apples? This question 

 was not asked by eastern fruit gi-owers during the past season, but it is 

 not necessary to look back far to see farmers hauling fine Spies or Bald- 

 wins four miles to market for 50 cents a barrel, which comes quite near 

 to paying for the privilege of working. Such seasons of surplus are rare, i 

 yet the problem of how best to dispose of a large crop is often a difficult 

 one. We may raise too many perishables, like peaches, pears, plums, 

 grapes or small fruits, but the danger limit is far away for the produc- 

 tion of that many-purpose, all-the-year fruit, the apple. In New York City, 

 for instance, in flats and apartment houses, are hundreds of families who 

 use but few apples. They scarcely know that there are such fruits as 

 fine-grained Northern Spies, good and reliable, but slightly coarser Bald- 

 wins, and Bellflowers and Spitzenburgs, which, when baked or stewed, 

 need no lemon or orange-peel trimmings. Here is a possible additional 

 market for thousands of bushels of apples, right within arm's length of 

 eastern fruit growers. 



Smaller Package Needed.— The barrel is an excellent package, strong 

 and easily handled, but it is too large for the city retail trade. Most city 

 houses have no suitable place for storing this quantity of fruit. Many flats 

 are so thoroughly occupied that were a barrel to appear at the door and 



