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THE APPLE CULTURItiT. 



INORGANIC OR ASH ANALYSIS. 



PROXIMATE, OR ORGANIC ANALYSIS OF THE SAME VARIETIES. 



Drying Apples. 



How often, to dry, on foul cords are they strung, 



In murky, low kitchens and out-houses hung ; 



As roosts for vile hornets, bugs, millers, and flies ; 



Then served at a banquet in dried-apple pies. EDWARDS. 



The practice adopted by a large proportion of those per- 

 sons who prepare dried apples for market deserves the se- 

 verest reprobation. The fruit is half-peeled, half-cored, 

 and often not cored at all, cut in quarters or slices, and 

 spread on the filthy roof of a building, or on dirty boards, 

 where it is exposed to alternate sunshine and rain, until the 

 repulsive-looking pieces, thickly dotted with fly-specks, are 

 sufficiently dry to be stored in bins or barrels as an article 

 of human food. The people who practise this odious sys- 



