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quality of fruit and skill of work hands. The product will be from 1,200 to 1,400 te 
white apples, and you would use with the most approved steam evaporator about 
1,200 Ib soft coal, and from 20 to 25 tb of brimstone. 
Great impetus was given to the business of ovaporating fruits by the introduction 
ef the method of bleaching the apples after being pared with the fumes of burning 
sulphur. It had been applied to hops, and in Europe to fruit to some extent, but it was 
introduced in the evaporator in this country about 1876. As it evaporates, so it 
bleaches. There are many styles but all accomplish the same work by burning sulphur. 
dn paring machines there has been great improvement since the one I used at paring 
bees. Some have even tried driving them by steam power, but we have yet to see any 
greater average per day than by hand power. I see it stated in the Canadian Horticul- 
- turist, of November, that apples pared faster than 25 bushel in ten hours will fly to 
_ pieces and waste. There are none of our boys that average less than 50 bushels, unless 
_ of poor apples, and some even as high as 75 ; yet we are not troubled in that way. 
. The importance of the enterprise to a community is shown, in a measure, by the 
amount of money that it puts into circulation, and not so much by the per cent. profit 
_to the man or company who buy their apples and hire help to do the work. It is an 
industry that gives employment to every man, woman and child in the community, and 
_ that of the most active and energetic kind. Girls and women who at other times are driving 
in their carriages, as soon as the season appears, may be found in the dry house all day. 
It is not uncommon for the farmer to give to his girls the proceeds of the evaporation if 
they will run it, and some of them take ina good deal of money, even up to $1,000 or 
more. As an example of the money brought into a place I will give you the sum 
paid out by one firm for dried fruit in the little village of Sodus, given to me by 
_ Mr, A. B. Williams, book-keeper for the year 1887 : 
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SECU NEI) WEG SD DLCSIEG (AC a,. sila tn dale seen. c'w, ainiajcie,cje osteo, a n\0 $262,500 
MNP PMID MC DOTS AGING. Sco acl o.cln ete erties Siaslaie'e «la. vise sists a oie6 6 9,000 
> DUN OUetb A RINS and Coresiat ZAC. «fhe. wads ost cass vhldecsiescs's 15,000 
4 uvRMND Te OB ERIOS ut 2G. dal sfoln'e ctside tothe «\ciaiclt« craickeysl ois eb} ais, sachs 27,500 
| : Pre TIEEEPONS CUE LOGS: to, cin la ia.c sini ope oPeatastorstersiaiatas ajo iciv >< ase's 67e'e 2 600 
4,000 Ib. peaches at 120........5.... .... arate tte ates ace calc nats 480 
. 4 $315,080 
) Other buyers would easily have carried the sum total to half a million dollars. 
This buyer employed in his packing house the following persons from September 1st to 
_ April Ist, inclusive, seven months: one superintendent, one weigh-man, five packers, four 
facers and six ring pickers ; seventeen persons in all. In packing the white apples they 
used 70,000 fifty-pound boxes, which loaded 140 cars, and it would require 30 car loads 
_ of half inch pine lumber to make the boxes. One box-making firm at that place write 
me that in the same year they made 75,000 boxes, using 32 car loads of half inch lumber, 
_ or 800,000 feet ; 600 Ib. glue, 2,500 Ib. nails, and employed seven men and two boys. 
You will see by the number of persons required in an evaporator of 200 bushels capacity 
_ that it would require 1,200 persons for three months in the evaporators, to produce the 
white apples alone that this firm bought. Now I think I have shown something of the 
value of such an enterprise to a community. 
| Mr. J. Day], of Rochester, in an article read before the Western New York Horti- 
_ cultural Society last January, plaees the entire production of evaporated fruit for the year 
1887 as follows: 
. 
Evaporated apples, 25,000,000 Ib............ eee ee eeeeeecens $1,125,000 
Chops, S000, 000 IDe oi cs «s0u5 acne aae eae 150,000 
Cores and parings, 4,000,000 Ib..............- scenes neenes 60,000 
Raspberries, 700,000 TBE .:s.2.c cewdeteess trek aia knots 150,000 
] Total, 37,750,000 tb. $1,495,000 
Giving employment to 80,000 persons at good wages. 
_ The question naturally arises: where do all these apples find a market? Dealers 
in New York write me that Germany and Holland are their largest purchasers, while 
those in Chicago say the great north-west and west. Parties in San Francisco say that 
