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Eraporalioit of Apples. 



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fixed charges, such as interest on investment, depreeiation, and insurance, 

 are distributed over a long productive season. Fuel is cheap, and labour 

 of an effijcient character is obtainable at rates very much lower than pre- 

 vail in most fruit districts in Washington. All these favouring conditions 

 have, combined with Mr. Snyder's long experience, exceptional energy, 

 enterprise, and business ability, to make this jilant a financial success. 

 The operator of such an evaporator in Washington will .scarcely find it 

 feasible to undertake the drying of vegetables. The supply of fruits 





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Other than apples available from year to year will probably fluctuate 

 rather widely, while the cost of fuel and labour will almost certainly be 

 greater than at Dayton. Economy of operation may best be secured by 

 the substitution of power-operated machinery for hand labour wherever 

 possible, by the installation of power parers, conveyors, bleachers, and 

 slicers. As the arrangement of the drying chambers one above the other 

 necessitates transfer of fruit from floor to floor, an elevator and wheeled 

 trucks for moving fruit in quantity will eliminate a very large expendi- 

 ture of tihie and labour. There' should be spreading tables on both 



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