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iQchee in diameter, and shall include such varieties as the Ben Davis, 

 Willow Twig, Baldwin, Greening and other varieties kindred in size 

 That the standard for class B shall not be less than two inches in di 

 ameter, and shall include such varieties as Romanite, Russetts, Wine 

 sap, Johnathan, Missouri, Pippin and other varieties kindred in size 

 And further, that No. 1 apples shall be at the time of packing practic 

 ally free from the action of worms, or defacement of surface or breaking 

 of skin, and shall be hand picked from the tree." 



This standard does not prevent any grower who may have good 

 apples, below the standard of size in either class, from marketing them 

 for what they are. Occasionally, some reasonably choice fruit might 

 run below this standard, but the exceptions are so rare that there can 

 be little objection to the standard as iixed. 



These suggestions are to the interest of every intelligent, capable 

 apple-grower. It may not suit his shiftless neighbor when he finds 

 that his neglected fruit will not grade as No. 1. But that class has no 

 legitimate place in the iudustiy. To increase the consumption of apples, 

 the consumer must be pleased, and nothing will tend to that end so 

 much as to furnish him with a better, rather than a poorer apple than 

 he expected when he made his purchase. Let the barrel branded No. 

 1 be not only No. 1, but fine ; and let the purchaser find the barrel 

 branded No. 2 not cider apples, but good fruit. Each barrel sold un- 

 der this plan will make a customer for two more, and a crop of apples 

 cannot be raised in this country too large to sell at fair prices, and that 

 without going to Europe for a market for the surplus. 



It may be too much to hope that all that is outlined can be ac- 

 complished this year, but by co-operation a long step can be made 

 toward it. One thing is sure in this big crop year, the grower who 

 most closely follows the suggestions will be the man best satisfied with 

 the results of last year's work. 



The Association is especially anxious to have growers understand 

 that the prosperity of both growers and legitimate dealers are bound 

 up together. Anything advancing the interests of one is for the bene- 

 fit of the other, and for that reason it urges the hearty co-operation 

 between the two interests, to the, end that the apple trade maybe 

 further extended upon a sound basis with a reasonable profit to all 

 concerned. The apple is the king of fruits, and its use can be greatly 

 enlarged by honesty in all dealings, and intelligent organized eflFort 

 upon the part of growers and dealers. 



