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There are uiaiiy, many ])ush cart luen selling apples. 1 saw an old mau on 

 the corner ol" Broadway the other day; he wore a G. A. li. l)adge on his 

 coat. Behind liiiu stood a num with a push cart, on this push cart there 

 were bright shiny apples, which he had shined with a cloth and placed 

 them artistically in rows. The old mau bought three of the apples, the 

 nicest, brightest ones, and he ate one and threw the others away. They 

 were good in looks only. This illustrates the fact that a New Yorker eats 

 with his eyes. When they go along and see a fruit stand that looks at- 

 tractive they do not stop to think whether or not the apples are good, but 

 buy the apples just the same. They get them and eat them on the run. I 

 suppose you will be astonished to know how many apples are eaten 

 on the run in New York City. A man buys the apples, puts them in his 

 pocket, and runs away, and eats them on the run. Up until a short time 

 ago the idea of sitting down by the lireside and eating apples was totally 

 unheard of in New York City. Ben Davises will not go in New York City, 

 for they demand a highly flavored apple. I am not here to run down the 

 Ben Davis apple, but I am telling you just ^yhat I think about it. I 

 believe that more money has been made on them than on any other 

 variety of apple, unless it is the Baldwin. But while you have made money 

 on the Ben Davis in the past, you will not make as much money in the 

 future. I will tell you Avhy. In the first place the market has changed in 

 New Y'ork. While it is true that the Ben Davis ranks far above any other 

 variety just now, it will not stay there. The city market of New York is 

 changing, and changing rapidly each year. I spent the winter in New 

 York last year, in a flat. There were thirteen hundred people on one 

 acre of ground. We had a little Hat of five rooms. I took apples with 

 me to the city that would have kept easily until May. This would have 

 been from 210 to 225 days they would have kept in my cellar at home, 

 and in 12 days they were gone in New York. They were almost the same 

 as in a Turkish bath all the time; it was impossible to keep them cool. 

 You could scarcely keep food there. It was foolish for one to buy a 

 barrel of apples and try to keep them there, for they could not do it. 

 This gets people into the fashioju of not keeping anything in the house. 

 I have known women's husbands come Tiome at ten minutes past six, and 

 want supper right away, and there would not be a thing in the house 

 to eat. How different this would be from a farmer's wife. The city 

 woman was not worried, because she had been there ' before, sq sh** 

 started to the bakery and this is what she got. She took a loaf of bread, 

 a pound of 1)oiled tongue, a pound of potato salad (and she was buying 

 the potato salad at the rate of .$9 a bushel for potatoes), and three ounces 

 of butter, and a pint of milk, went home, and in a very few minutes 

 supper was ready to sit down to. Most people in the city live in this way. 

 They are living from hand to mouth, simply because they live in these flat 

 buildings and the building is heated so that it is imiwssible for them to 

 keep food; consequently the people can not handle the fruit in barrels. 



