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Eraporalion of Apples. 



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to the Baldwin in the East. Winesap, Delicious, Jonathan, Black Twig, 

 Rhode Tsland Greening, liome Beauty and Staynian Winesaji will make 

 a slifrhtly less whife, faintly golden stock, and will rank together in 

 second place, while Roxhury Russet, Missouri and Yellow Newtown, 

 Gano, Wagener, and Grimes Golden will be ranked as the "dark stock 

 group " by reason of the fact that the fruit made from them will be a 

 distinctly golden colour which will command in the markets a price 

 slightly below that of the whiter stocks.* 



Yield of Dry Fruit from Different Varieties. 



It may be said at the outset that colour and weight of dry product 

 are both directly dependent upon the sugar content of the variety used ; 

 that such varieties as are characleristically low in sugar content will 

 give the desired white stock, but will give small yields of dry product, 

 while varieties high in sugar content will give a larger yield of a jirodnct 

 of darker colour. f Of the apples named in the " white stock group " 

 above, it may be said that an average yield of dry fruit from Baldwin, 

 Spitzenburg, or Ben Davis will be 13 to 13J pounds per hundred pounds 

 of fresh fruit; for the second group — Winesap, Jonathan, Black Twig 

 and Greenings, the yield will be, on the average, 13J to 14i pounds per 

 hundred, while Russets, Grimes Golden, and the others named with them 

 as the ' 'dark stock group " will give a yield of 14 J to 36 pounds of dry 

 fruit per hundred. In all cases, these figures apply to mature apples of 

 C grade or good culls, dried to a water content of 2.5 per cent. Wind- 

 falls and immature fruits will make a slightly lighter product, as they 

 must have the water content reduced to a lower percentage in order to 

 prevent spoiling. 



In this connexion it may be of interest to state the result obtained by 

 Mr. D. A. Snyder, of the Dayton Evaporating and Packing Co., who 

 dried during the past season a number of lots of apples sent him from 

 Spokane, from points in Idaho, and from Portland, Oregon, for the 

 purpose of making comparative tests of yields. The results follow : — - 



• Mr. J. Farrell, of the Victorian Department of Agriculture, supplies the following note: — Apples 

 with white tlt-sh yield the most :ittractive product, but a woll-drird mixture of several varieties is usually 

 of good quality and appearance. Under ordinary conditions it is not desirable to cultivate siK-cial sorts 

 for drying. The only variety which I have heard of as having been rejected for drying purposes is 

 Morgan's Seedling and this is considered unsuitable, not on account of its quality, but rather because it 

 Is too smal! to handle proHtably. 



t Since summer varieties are. as a class, very low in total solids and in sugar, the yield of dry fruit is 

 so small that it is imimssible to evaporate them witli proflt. For this reason no summer varieties are 

 mentioned in this discussion. 



