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ones would be spoiled by jamming ; I used to think I must build 

 up platforms above each other to prevent that, but that is not 

 necessary; those Spies came out just as fine and nice and hard 

 as could be. Never fear to pile apples if your bin is solid and 

 will not give. There are many ways like this that you can 

 store your apples without using barrels. 



Shipping the Fruit — If we store our apples and it comes 

 winter, and we hear the winds blowing about and over our islands 

 and along our lake shores,we are very aft to get nervous, and say : 

 "I don't know where to ship; I don't know where to ship; and I 

 don't know how to ship." Perhaps I can give you some 

 pointers along these lines. The time to ship is when the market 

 calls for the variety that you have to sell; if you have Snows, 

 then Thanksgiving and Christmas is the time to dispose of them ; 

 and Kings go well then, and Spitzenburgs go well any time 

 after Christmas. Spies go well in February, and Baldwins in 

 March, and Ben Davis any time two years afterwards. 



We have got to study our business ; get to be students of 

 the market in order to know when these apples are demanded by 

 the market. We must be in toucli with the market, if we have 

 i.,ooo or so barrels on hand when the market is liable to pay the 

 highest price. 



Co-operation — Co-operation is the only way through which 

 we can come to our highest ideals. For 50 men who are in 

 the market to sell 50 small lots of apples, to act individually is 

 radically wrong, something ought to be done; some of us will 

 know pretty well what to do to get results but the rest will 

 not know how or when to act. We must co-operate. 



Some of you will say that we have apples enough in Ver- 

 mont. Our apple crop is one million barrels a year. At $2 per 

 barrel is two miUions of dollars, that is something for us to 

 consider ; it is worth while for the Legislature to help us, don't 

 you think? And when the two million dollar mark is readied 

 the four million mark will come soon after. 



It is almost an impossibility for an individual, who has, 

 perhaps, 500 barrels of apples, to ship these at reasonable rates, 

 but if several in a community can only just work together and 

 hire a car, you can ship as cheaply as fruit can be shipped any- 

 where by the car. Appoint one man to look after the shipping. 

 The Snows can be shipped very nicely before it is too cold; and 

 then when the cold weather does come, you can ship the Green- 

 ings and Baldwins and Spies all right. Last winter we con- 

 sidered the coldest winter we ever knew, but we shipped a car- 

 load a week all through the cold weather and never froze but 

 one car. We commenced about Thanksgiving in our section, 

 and we worked together. This winter we have shipped a car load 



