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Mr. Smith : In connection with the Malinda apple, I speak 

 of it from a commercial standpoint. I find it is not a favorite in 

 the market and doesn't bring a high price. It comes in competi- 

 tion with the late keeping varieties, and it does not % compare 

 favorably with those in looks and in price. 



A Member: I would like to have that subject of a late 

 apple discussed here since we have time. In our part of the 

 country along the river shore we can raise better kinds than the 

 Malinda. The Malinda with me runs rather smaller than the 

 market favors. We tried some Salomes, and they did exceed- 

 ingly well. It is a nice tasting apple and it has a nicer color. 

 The tree looks hardy enough along the river. It is a late apple. 

 I would give preference to the Salome. About the other late 

 varieties of apples which were mentioned this morning, like the 

 Stark Brothers Delicious, it is a question whether it will ever be 

 a success. It seems they don't develop a big enough apple for 

 the commercial orchard. 



Prof. Hansen : I would say I was very much interested in 

 Mr. Smith's statement, and I thought maybe I was working along 

 the wrong line ; that is, for extra early apples. Some years ago 

 I spent a day in Winnipeg, Canada. There were some of the 

 Yellow Transparent apples, very large, wrapped in paper in a 

 small crate. They sold well, and ever since then I have thought 

 there was a market for a very early apple. I worked a little in 

 that line \o get an extra early apple ahead of the Duchess. If 

 there isn't any market for such an apple I worked along the 

 wrong line. I know the Yellow Transparent blights badly in 

 places and also that the Tetofsky is more of a home apple, not a 

 shipper. It seems to me there is a chance for an early apple. 

 The Yellow Transparent would fill the bill if it didn't seem to 

 blight in so many places. 



Mr. Smith : In partial answer to Professor Hansen's ques- 

 tion regarding the early apple : There isn't a great demand for 

 it in the market, for the reason that it is apt to decay and perish 

 very quickly. There is a competitor in the shape of the Duchess 

 picked nearly ripe. That makes splendid sauce, and that is 

 about the principal use we make of the apple at that time. So I 

 don't believe that commercially the early apple would be very 

 desirable. I think in this country we want a late apple, not an 

 early one. 



Mr. Underwood : May I add a word in regard to the early 

 apple. Mr. George T. Powell, who, you remember, was with us 

 a few years ago, told us that the apple that he made the most 

 money from was the Wealthy, and he picked it early. He 

 recommends picking them early, that they are an early apple. 

 Last winter I talked with Mr. John Collins, who has the large 

 commercial orchard I spoke of eleven miles from Philadelphia, 

 and he says that the apple that he makes the most money off of 

 is his Wealthy, because he commences picking them early. Now, 

 the idea is, your Wealthy and your Duchess bear too full, the 



