400 State Horticultural Society. 



ex2>ense of harvesting; and packing the entire crop. Some seasons I ha\'e^ 

 reahzed as much profit from the culls as from the shipping apples. 



I hire the most careful hands I can get and pay them by the day. 

 Most evaporators pay their hands so much per bushel. When hands 

 work by the bushel they will rush to get as many bushels done as possible, 

 paying but little attention to the manner of trimming the apples. A poor 

 grade of fruit will be the result. I make nothing but fancy fruit and get 

 fancy prices for it. 



I ship m.y evaporated fruit to a commission house in St. Louis known 

 t(^ be reliable. I have shipped all my evaporated products to this firm 

 for a number of years, receiving from 2 to 3 cents more per pound than 

 common evaporated fruit sells for. The commission men write me that 

 by receiving frequent and large shipments of this kind of fruit from year 

 to year, they are able to build up a special trade to customers that want 

 a fancy article and are willing to pay well for it. 



When shipping any of my farm products, I consign to but one com- 

 mission firm in a city. It doesn't pay to ship to any house that offers 

 good prices and prompt returns, without giving the matter of their re- 

 liability some thought. There are commission houses in all large cities 

 that do an honest business. I select one of these and give him all my 

 shipments to that city. The commission men will furnish better service 

 to the regular than they will to the transient shipper who divides his 

 trade among a number of firms in the same town. It is business for them 

 tc do so. The regular shipper's business is worth looking after. His 

 products are more even as a rule and easier sold than an odd lot of differ- 

 ent grade stuff'. — Orange Judd Farmer, 



NOTES. 



Samuel A. ^filler, Sussex, N. J., in his essay on "The Most Profit- 

 able Management of Peach Orchards," recommended the purchase of 

 trees from Southern States or from Western New York in order to 

 lessen danger of "yellows." Discussion brought out instances where or- 

 ders for peach trees placed with nurseries in these localities by Jersey- 

 men were filled with trees grown in New Jersey to the mutual satisfac- 

 tion of air concerned, except that the wrong nurseries got the credit for 

 producing such excellent stock. 



EVAPORATING APPLES. 



B. J. Case's paper on evaporating apples and berries was a revelation 

 to Jersey growers, accustomed to losses occasioned by gluts in the market. 



