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it will pay to do this if you wish, to sell apples every year. Another 

 very important matter in the selling of fruit is to have good, clean, 

 smooth, full size barrels. This is much more important than one 

 would think at first appearance. It is of very great importance and 

 one or two cents on each barrel is worth much more than it costs. 



L. A. Goodman. 



Picking and Marketing the Quince. 



The error of many growers is the time of picking and the manner 

 of handling. As quinces do not blow off like apples or pears, many 

 growers pick when convenient and that may be only after they have 

 become yellow. An experience of years in growing, buying and shipp- 

 ing quinces, causes the writer to believe there is a right time to pick,, 

 that two days before this time is too early, and two days after that 

 right time is too late for the good of the fruit. A little too early, the 

 fruit is not well colored and it does not present its best appearance in 

 market; a little too late, especially if the weather be warm, and it i& 

 over-ripe, and it is just then that black spot, where it exists, gets in- 

 its work rapidly. 



People are cautioned over and over again, to handle fruit care- 

 fully, and this applies more to quinces than to any oiher fruit. A 

 slight bruise, from dropping into the basket or turning into the barrel,, 

 in 10 hours has become an ill-looking brown patch. S)ack packing in 

 the barrel ia disastrous, for fruit carelessly put up this way will hardly 

 bring freight charges. The moving about of specimens during transit,, 

 perhaps for hundreds of miles, is ruination to the whole package. 

 Another thing to be observed is to pack and ship at once, or as soon 

 as they are taken from the bushes. 



The writer's own quinces, while no better than many others, have 

 for years sold for from 50c to $1 per barrel more than average quinces,. 

 on account of the care in picking and packing which made them show 

 well jn market. The proverbial "handle like eggs," applies very much 

 to the marketing of quinces. James F. Rose, New York. 



Picking Fruit. 



It is a pleasant and exceedingly desirable kind of work to have 

 fresh fruit to pick at will during four to six months of the year. We 

 pass by the saving and convenience of having a plentiful supply of 

 fruit at all times handy, and will speak only of the gathering. Where 

 large quantities are to be gathered it is purely a business transaction. 



