NOTES AND: COMMENTS.^ , 



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Fig. 2544. W. 11. Dkmi'sev's Fruit House. 



for the apples for storage are picked directly 

 into the barrels and all need repacking-, 

 which is worth about 15 cents a barrel ; or 

 a total added cost to the price in the orch- 

 ard of at least 41 cents a barrel. It is 

 therefore 'evident that when a farmer is 

 offered $1.00 a barrel for his apples on the 

 trees, the buyer to pick them, he is receiv- 

 ing a fair price; for the picking is worth 10 

 cents a barrel, the barrel 35 cents, so that 

 he is receiving an equivalent of $1.00 + 41 + 

 10 + 350, or $1.86 net for his apples, stored 

 and packed ; or, if not stored, since he would 

 still have the 15 cents cost of packing, $1.00 

 + 10 + 35, o*" $1.60 a barrel net, a price 

 which he might not realize if he shipped on 

 consignment, unless the market rules high. 

 The president of the Trenton Apple Stor- 

 age Co. is Mr. Harry Pedwell, an exper- 

 ienced capitalist, and the managing director 

 is Mr. Eben James, of Toronto. 



TEMPERATURE FOR KEEPING APPLES. 



IT has been much debated at what tem- 

 perature apples will keep best, some 

 claiming that 40 ° is low enough, but actual 

 tests show that the nearer they can be kept 

 to the freezing point in safety, the longer 



they will keep without change. " I try," said 

 Mr. Eben James, " to keep the temperature 

 in my storage between 30° and 32°, and I 

 find that the apples in barrels will stand 

 that without injury, and that scab will not 

 develop on the apples held at such a low 

 temperature." 



Mr. James has the packing done in this 

 temperature also. He objects to packing 

 rooms such as used at Brighton and Col- 

 borne, which are heated by stoves, because 

 apples brought from 32° to 60° or 70° will 

 at once become wet from the condensed 

 vapor, and these sudden changes injure them. 



OUR APPLE STATION. 



IT WAS well planned when we selected 

 Mr. W. H. Dempsey as our experi- 

 menter in apples, a large apple grower in 

 this great apple district. He has about fifty 

 acres in apple trees himself, and his princi- 

 pal varieties are as follows : 



Ben Davis 600 trees. 



Spy 500 



Snow 400 



Baldwin 200 



Greening 200 



King 65 



Ontario 50 



besides an endless list of smaller lots. 



