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•onscionsuess of having been cheated. This may be called glutting the mar- 

 ket with a vengeance. A better way would be, if your fruit has been put up 

 as here described, to send it to some reliable commission man, — as some such 

 may still be found, — to be held for sale as the condition of the fruit and mar- 

 ket would best warrant a fair price; or better still, perhaps, be put into a cool, 

 dry cellar and held for a home market. 



Apples that at the time of gathering last fall would bring only a dollar and 

 a half or two dollars at best, have been sold within the past month for from 

 three to five dollars per barrel. 



There is a profit in raising fruit for market; therefore, you who have a taste 

 for it, plant trees, especially apple trees, and do not forget the pear and peach, 

 And also the grape and smaller fruits. 



