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these varieties make evaporated slock 

 of the choicest quality, as for example 

 Ben Davis, which makes a white fruit 

 unequaled by any variety except pos- 

 sibly the Baldwin. Were the crop 

 turned bodily into the evaporator, a 

 very considerable share of the harvest- 

 ing cost could be eliminated, and the 

 operator of the drying plant could 

 make a product a large part of which 

 would grade as extra fancy and choice, 

 hence could pay a price two or three 

 dollars higher than that paid for culls. 

 I have no expectation that this will be 

 done in the immediate future, but I 

 believe I foresee a time coming in 

 which the continued crowding of these 

 unprofitable varieties into the market 

 will have hammered down the general 

 level of apple prices to a point at which 

 the grower will realize a larger profit 

 from them when dried than when sold 

 as fresh fruit, and it would be the part 

 of wisdom to anticipate the inevitable 

 and to take steps to meet it. 



Will the evaporator or the vinegar 

 plant handle culls with most profit to 

 the grower? Vinegar making is the 

 least profitable method of converting 

 unmarketable fruit into marketable 

 products. The market is limited by a 

 generally low per capita consumption, 

 which is not materially increasing and 

 which is not capable of any material 

 stimulation; the producer in our terri- 

 tory is handicapped by the bulkiness 

 of his product, the great expense of 

 rail transportation into consuming ter- 

 ritory outside a narrow radius, and the 

 strong competition of a product made 

 from factory waste. The market is sub- 

 ject to great fluctuations, since every 

 year of large apple crops in the East- 

 ern or interior apple-growing regions 

 is one of large overproduction of vine- 

 gar and consequent heavy decline in 

 price. The business is also necessarily 

 much more highly speculative than any 

 other method of converting fruit into 

 salable commodities, by reason of the 

 long period which must intervene be- 

 tween the purchase of raw materials 

 and the marketing of the finished pro- 

 duct. There is no opportunity to judge 

 of the probable state of the market 

 when the goods are to be sold at the 

 time the operator contracts for apples, 

 and it is highly expensive to carry over 

 marketable stock because deterioration 

 is unavoidable. The experienced oper- 

 ator therefore recognizes that he must 

 "play safe" while "going it blind" in 



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