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It will take an apple with the calyx Avorm but no side worms, and it 

 .eally makes a good storage grade of apples, and yet does not requira 

 so fancy an apple as the other grade. Then our third grade, we call 

 e C grade. This one, the rules say, shall include all merchantable 

 apples not included in the other two grades. We don't put our stamp 

 on that one, so that it Is sold on its merits, and on inspection. This 

 grade will vary considerably. There are a great many big fine apples 

 with a side worm or some other defect, that will be thrown out of 

 the other two grades, that will go into this grade. But most of the 

 apples that go out of the first two grades would be thrown out on 

 account of size, and that fruit might run quite even and sound. So 

 it would be impossible for the association to guarantee that fruit to 

 comply with any set of rules. It is simply sold on its merits or under 

 inspection, and the association sold practically all of that. It was put 

 in barrels, but some of the growers sold the C grade in bulk, and 

 some of them in barrels. That was a matter for them to decide. It 

 happened we sold the C grade this year from $2 to $2.50 a barrel, 

 F. O. B. the cars. Ordinarily, that is a good price for number one 

 apples. 



Q. Would you mind telling us what you got for your first and 

 second? 



A. Well, I got from $2.50 to $4.25 a barrel F. O. B. the cars. 

 The first sale we made, as I told you, was that sold early, and while 

 we got a good price at that time, yet the price came up after that. 

 There was some good fruit that sold later at $4.25 and $4.50 for 

 Jonathan, and $3.75 for Ben Davis, F. O. B. 



Q. What grade of apple sold best for you, what is your best 

 seller, what variety? 



A. Of course, the Jonathan is one of the big favorites. You 

 take the eastern buyer, and most of them are quite partial to the 

 old Ben Davis, one of the very best commercial apples. It seems 

 they so consider it that way because of its being a long keeping apple. 

 When they want something to put into storage and hold till next 

 spring, something they do not need to worry about during the winter 

 nionths, they find that the Ben Davis fills that requirement. And 

 the buyers that came out from the east, and we had as many as a 

 dozen at headquarters at one time trying to buy our apples, preferred 

 the Jonathan, Ben Davis, Winesap or Grimes Golden. Those four 

 varieties were what the buyers were after. 



Q. How about the Gano? 



A. They class that right with the Ben Davis, there are very 

 few of them that are willing to pay more for the Gano than the Ben 

 Davis. 



Q. What would you plant? 



A. That is a question. I hardly know how to answer that, but 

 1 do know I would stick pretty close to the old Ben Davis. If I was 



