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establish a reputation of putting up good fruit. When you do that you 

 will have no trouble to sell all you can grow. Let every grower use a 

 stencil with his name with a letter A for No. 1, B for No. 2, C for culls. 

 You will get more money for your fruit, and no matter how large a crop 

 you have you will find a market for all at good price. There is no risk 

 in shipping good stock a good long distance. It is the peaches that drop 

 on the ground and the culls that cause the trouble. In picking peaches 

 there are more or less that drop off. It is hard work for some growers 

 to let them lie. They look all right, and they will put them in with the 

 picked fruit. That is all wrong; put them in a basket by themselves, 

 mark the basket and sell to some one for present use. You can most 

 always get their full value. There is no money lost in shipping good 

 stock, it is the poor stock mixed with the good that makes the loss. 



ESTIMATE OF PEACHES SHIPPED IN 1895 FROM THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: 



Eank. Bushels. 



Allegan County 1 1,250,000 



Kent " 2 695,000 



Oceana '' . 3 250,000 



Mason " 4 150,000 



Ionia " 5 60,000 



Van Buren " 6 20,000 



Barry " 7 15,000 



Total amount 2,440,000 



This is 6,110 car loads of 400 bushels each in less than five years. This 

 amount will be doubled soon. I think that at least 1-6 of all our peaches 

 would go into the territory that is east of Buffalo if we could get the 

 same rate on baskets as on crates. 



Mr. Rice: Our Canadian friends have made some experiments in long 

 shipment of fruit. Grapes and tomatoes have been shipped- to England^ 

 there to come into competition with grapes from Southern France, Spain, 

 and the Jersey Islands. They have also sent apples to British Columbia. 

 One shipment was made to the antipodes, as an experiment, New South 

 Wales being selected. The apples were wrapped in paper and put in one 

 bushel boxes. In passing through the tropics many of them were baked, 

 but those that passed through safely brought $2.50 per bushel. 



PEACHES IN THE INTERIOR OF THE STATE. 



H. P. GLADDEN, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



The famous "peach belt" of Michigan extends along the western lake 

 shore from the southern boundary of the State to Traverse Bay. Within 

 this territory is a large area where the peach can be grown to a perfec- 

 tion equaled by few, if any, sections of our country. But there are other 

 portions of the State where the peach has been grown successfully, and 

 doubtless investigation would show that there are many yet undiscov- 

 ered localities where this fruit could profitably be grown. 



