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no more than $2 in the market, we are getting double the real 

 jcost of our crop. If you are putting up one pound of butter 

 at a cost of 20 cents, and get 25 cents for it in the market, that 

 five cents is five cents profit on the 20 cents' worth of butter. If 

 you could double that and get 40 cents ; did you ever double 

 the cost of production in the sale of your butter? It is often 

 the case that we double the cost in the sale of our apple crop, 

 and very often we get three and four and five times above that. 

 Perhaps some good dairymen may object to that, and say that 

 apples don't bring much, and that butter is the thing. Well, I 

 will not say anything against butter ; but I do say, combine 

 good apple orchards with good butter. There is a demand for 

 Vermont apples in the Boston, Washington, New York and 

 Chicago markets, they are calling for Vermont apples. Without 

 any very great effort on the part of the Vermont farmer, apples 

 have gone up to such a point in the New York market that they 

 are 75 cents to $1 per barrel higher than other apples, although 

 Oregon apples, coming in boxes, will come a little higher. 

 Boston has been quoting Vermont apples from 75 cents to $1 

 higher than other fruit, and in our own state, the Burlington 

 "Free Press" quotes Vermont apples 75 cents a barrel higher, 

 for certain varieties. 



If we can grow an apple that is in great demand, more so 

 than other apples, then there is an incentive to set more apple 

 trees and take better care of them. 



As to the method or manner of growing the trees, the brother 

 preceding me has said enough. 



In regard to harvesting the fruit, it is important that the 

 farmer, whether he has one or two thousand or ten or twenty or 

 fifty trees, give his attention to that work, do it thoroughly ; do 

 it well. 



One point as to the variety to grow ; make them the winter 

 or late fall varieties. If you are going to keep these apples 

 for market, they want to be placed there in the very best condi- 

 tion ; don't think they can be dumped into barrels and shipped to 

 their destination, and think because they have been in the cold 

 storage you can get a remarkably high price for them. The 

 apple must be put in the storage in good condition, or it will not 

 leave it in that shape ; it will decay in the storage if it is placed 

 there in that condition. You must have boys or men who will 

 work rapidly and carefully, it is an apple at a time, not shovels- 

 full, from beginning to end, from the time you pick them from 

 the tree until you put them on the market. We are getting so 

 now that instead of putting- them in barrels we use packing boxes. 

 That custom has grown to such an extent that Millard of Rouses 

 Point has sent some of his manufacture for you to exj^mine. 



