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is the Jouatbau. I ouly recommend it so far as I have seen it tried, but 

 so much faith have I in it now, that in a new orchard I phmted one-third 

 Jonathans and two-thirds Winesaps. ^ 



Chairman Latta: How does the Ben Davis ranlc? 



Mr. Burton: It does not rank at all. The Ben Davis brings me in 

 the most money when I sell it for twenty-five cents a barz'el in the 

 orchard. It has a reputation of being the best keeper of any apple, but 

 it is the best rotter I ever saw. 



Mrs. Lindley, of Washington County: I speak only from my own 

 experience, and how the question affects me individually. We like the 

 Transparent Early, for sauce, and the Wealthy for storing purposes. We 

 have the Ben Davis, also, and I am glad that some one likes the Ben 

 Davis. 1 do not believe there is an apple in the world that will bake 

 like the Ben Davis. I know what I am talking about in that line, be- 

 cause people send to me for baked apples for miles around when they 

 are sick, and it is not because I am so skilled as an apple baker, but 

 because the Ben Davis is such a good apple to bake. I think the best 

 late apple we have is the Gilpin. 



Mr. Cravens: From experience in our county, I believe the kind of 

 apple to raise depends largely upon the facilities for marketing and the 

 market to which we send. Now we are talking of four different varie- 

 ties. So far as the Ben Davis is concerned, I think if you live in Har- 

 rison. County with Mr. Thomas, and can ship your apples down the Ohio 

 river and get them to the colored brethren in Kentucky, the Ben Davis 

 is all right then. They are a large, red apple and look enough like a 

 watermelon, and you know the colored brother is very fond of water- 

 melons. But if you are going to ship north, you must ship some other 

 kind than the Ben Davis. We like the Winesap and Grimes Golden in 

 our country, and they will always bring a dollar a bushel whenever you 

 want to sell them, either one bushel or a thousand. They are a shy 

 bearer, but take it one year with another, you can always get your 

 money out of them. If you can get them in the northern markets in 

 cold storage, there is more money in them than in any other apple. As 

 for the Jonathan, they are white-meated, never very rich, and I con- 

 sider them, and they are generally considered in my part, the best of the 

 four. 



Mr. Sacksteder: I tliink the Rome Beauty does about the best of all. 

 A good many farmers near me have a great many of the Ben Davis 

 and Rome Beauty apples, and they say the Rome Beauty beats the Ben 

 Davis two to one. The Winesap doesn't amount to much near there 

 —in Crawford County, which is my section. There is a new apple, new 



