THE HANDLING AND MARKETING OF APPLES. 45 I 



less than carload lots. Notify the commission merchant when 

 shipping-, and correctly inform him as to quality and variety of fruit 

 sent. Mark each package with what it contains and put your ad- 

 dress on it for future reference. 



Mr. C. C. Hunter: I did not quite understand the point Mr. 

 Smith brought out in regard to injuring the buds of the next 

 year. 



Mr. Smith : Those who have not had experience in picking 

 apples bend down the limb and are apt to break off the fruit bud 

 or spur. When you pick an apple twist it off, and there will 

 be no injury to the fruit spur. 



Mr. Emil Sahler: In picking apples I find with every apple 

 a blossom bud. I was at Mr. Yahnke's place this summer, and 

 I remember when they were picking he said they must not pull 

 off those blossom buds. My experience in picking apples is that 

 the best way to do it is to put your thumb up against the stem 

 of the apple and give it one push and the apple will come off, 

 and that will never destroy the blossom bud for next year. It 

 is simple when you get used to it. At the same time when 

 I give that stem a push I have a device to drop it into this little 

 receiving sack. It is handy, and it is just perfect; one man can 

 do the picking of two men. Mr. Yahnke used one in picking 

 cherries, and his son told me he could pick in one hour as much as 

 his father could in a whole day by the old way. 



Mr. A. J. Philips (Wis.) : That's all right if you do it your- 

 self, but the boys and girls will not do it any better. 



Mr. Sahler: Why, the girls do better than the men and boys. 

 They're all right. 



Mr. Brackett : In connection with those spurs I want to say 

 that when you are picking the Wealthy break off as many buds 

 as you can, and they will not b.e so apt to overbear. 



The Chairman : That is a good point, only don't get per- 

 sonal with the bootheel. 



THE RELATION OF STOCK AND SCION. 



A. J. PHILIPS, WEST SALEM, WIS. 



I was not going to say much on this subject, although I have talked 

 top-working. I have not top-worked as Mr. Kenney recorrimends 

 so much as to increase the hardiness of the tree. I know it does it. 

 It increases its longevity, and the stock does have an influence on the 

 scion. There is no question but that in time the result will be that 

 a strong growing variety like the Virginia crab will produce larger 

 fruit than it will on its own roots. A man asked me yesterday 

 whether I ever noticed a difference in the flavor of an apple that w;is 

 top-worked. I took the precaution after I commenced top-working 

 in the way of corresponding with Prof. Bailey, and he saw some 



