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make profitable our soft peaches and unsalable berries and windfall and 

 unmerchantable apples. It is thus an excellent auxiliary to the fruit growers and 

 not an unprofitable investment to the stockholders. Our experience with dried 

 berries will result in largely increasing the area of this fruit. If the demand for 

 fresh berries is dull in the markets, or if by reason of protracted storms or 

 unfavorable weather it is undesirable to ship, or the fruit becomes unsuitable 

 for that purpose the grower is relieved from loss or anxiety by taking his fruit 

 to the evaporator. 



A market for the otherwise nearly worthless apples has lately grown up through 

 the operations of two cider mills, the grinding and presses operated by steam, and 

 cue of them capable of making a large number of barrels per day. In the 

 other have been placed facilities for making apple butter, boiled cider, apple 

 jelly, etc., using the steam coil, and large wooden vat that can be readily raised 

 or lowered to or from the stationary coil. The business can be greatly enlarged 

 and made into an important industry. 



Notwithstanding the failure of the peach crop the past year we have abund- 

 ant ground for encouragement, and have in no wise lost faith in the profits 

 and certainty of fruit growing as a business for a livelihood. The meetings of 

 the society have been interrupted of late owing to several causes, but will be 

 again resumed. 



