322 State Ilorticiiilural Society. 



izcr and buy the plant foods for )oursclf. Trees must be fed sooner 

 or later. 



Mr. Black — The best suggestion on No. 2 apples was not to grow 

 too many of them; while there is a place for this grade of fruit, the fewer 

 we have the better the grower will be off. 



i\fr. Robinson — While in France I asked the pn'ncipal import, and 

 was surprised to find it was dried apples. vSaw samples, and they were 

 very poor. Cores and stem were mixed in. 13,000 barrels dried apples 

 were in stock. When asked what they did with them, was told they 

 made French wines of them. Wine sells very cheap there. In some 

 parts of Kansas it is the practice to sell No. i and No. 2 apples together, 

 and also to sell a good deal in bulk. Most of this class of fruit have a 

 blemish of some kind. Find sweet clover the best for the orchard. 



Secretary Goodman — Find that certain weeds are just as valuable 

 as clover, cow peas, etc., for certain things. 



WFLVT SHALL BE DONE WITH NO. 2 APPLES. 



(T. H. Todd. New Franklin, Mo.) 



This question covers a large field for thought. The grower claims 

 that he has a right to sell them when he can find a buyer. The broker 

 claims that they break the market and largely take the place of the best 

 apples. The speculator insists that that part of the apple crop cannot 

 be estimated and therefore gives him trouble. The consumers say that 

 they must have them because they are cheap, and are compelled to buy 

 them or get none — I mean that class of consumers who always buy cheap 

 goods and cannot afford to buy the best. 



Now, I am sure that the stand that I shall take in defense of No. 2 

 apples will meet with some protest, but the question cannot be met from 

 some narrow point of view or from a pecuniary standpoint, especially 

 when we take into consideration the great interest of horticultural 

 v/ork and the importance of widening and extending our great commer- 

 cial markets by reaching all classes of consumers. Every commercial 

 orchard in our great fruit-growing states that is well cared for, the nat- 

 ural result of that orchard from year to year is a very limited amount of 

 No. 2 apples. This limited amount, I claim, is a very necessary produc- 

 tion. 



I mean, as I have above intimated, that we cannot reach all classes 

 of consumers without them, for there is a class of consumers that you 

 cannot reach with the best apples. Some one will say, "O, yes ; when 



