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over production of apples, and yet in 1895, with a crop of 65,000,000 barrels, 

 there was no over supply oiprime fruit, at far larger prices than they commanded 

 in 1855 ; and if Ontario has 10,000,000 barrels ol prime apples to send us in 

 igro or 1920 they will find a market at prices which will yield a much better 

 return than wheat, barley, cattle, horses, sheep, cheese or butter. 



I shall make inquiry and learn the name and address of some reliable fruit 

 dealer in this city, and give it to your readers in my next letter. Let me warn 

 them again lo pack with care, in neat and clean packages, only prims fruit and 

 brand distinctly, and thus establish a valuable reputation. 



There were two mistakes in the figures of my last letter, as published, 

 25,000,000 should have been 35,000,000, and 4,500,000,000 should have been 

 4,550,000,000. 



The Ontario apple is superior in quality to all other American apples. The 

 superiority is due to the climate and for this reason the demand for prime 

 Ontario apples will always exceed the supply when they have an established 

 reputation. 



I have received a number of communications from Canadian fruit growers 

 since my letter respecting the shipment of prime Summer apples in small 

 packages from Canada to our Eastern markets, appeared in the July issue of the 

 Canadian Horticulturist, asking for the name and address of fruit mer- 

 chants to whom fruit can be safely consigned for sale. I have made some 

 inquiries and given the subject considerable consideration, and have concluded 

 to suggest that your Association should send an agent to Boston to open up a 

 market in New England with that city as a centre, another to New York City ; 

 and still a third to Philadelphia. From these three centres a very wealthy con- 

 suming population of 8,000,000 can be reached, south of Portland, Maine, and 

 north of the Potomac River, for the trial of the experiment. 



Let all the apples sent to these agents be most carefully selected and 

 packed in neat, clean, fresh cases, or kegs, containing not more than one bushel 

 each. Success depends upon selection, packing, quality, condition and appear- 

 ance when exposed for sale. 



If the crop of Summer apples is abundant, growers can well afford to send 

 only the very best to this market as an experiment. Make them so fine that 

 they will command attention. Brand carefully and distinctly the name 

 " Canada " upon each package and instruct the agents to advertise them as 

 *' Canadian Apples." They should arrive here in the night and be sold the next 

 morning at auction for spot cash on the wharf where they are delivered from the 

 cars. 



Nearly all of the California fruit comes to this market by the Erie Railway, 

 and is opened and arranged at once for sale at auction upon the Erie Railway 

 wharf early the next morning. 



In 1894 two car-loads of California pears, plumps, peaches and grapes came 

 to New York on the same train, and were sold at auction on the same wharf at 



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