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iuto New York City and then re-shipped l>ut wouhl go di- 

 lect to its destination. 



"We knew that there were men from Escouoba, Iland- 

 cock. Houghton, Sioux City, etc., who wanted these eastern 

 gpples and they were hei'e looking around, but they had 

 heen looking around en the basis of !f^2.C0 as the very best 

 for grade A. They had very moderate ideas. 



AVe held the sale; we had had a conference with ]\Ir. 

 Teator; we had sized the sitaation up as best experienced 

 {■r inexperienced men coul \ We studied the deal and said 

 "Your apples, jMr. Tet tor, oi^ight to bring ^3.25." He said 

 "If they bring $3. CO I thirk we will be pretty well paid." 

 "We urged him to ftand pat for $3.25 and he held for $3.25, 

 end then the bidding began. We reserved one bid for the 

 owner as we do in all anction sales, and we stated it before 

 the sale. The bids ran up en Mr. Teator \s orchard to 

 w3.12'^/2 ; he did not sell. Mr. Eiler's small orchard was sold 

 at $3.25 for grade A apples. In the case of other orchards 

 we sold only a few. 



The people said it was a frost and perhaps it was, but 

 the next day we went over to Gardner and had better re- 

 sults. W^e sold Mr. Deyo's orchard, which was a large one, 

 all Baldwins, at $3.15 for grade B. We sold his sister's or- 

 chard at $3.05; they never want to give a woman quite so 

 much for her labor or time, regardless of her intelligence, 

 as a man. 



W^e advertised 10 days later that we would sell again at 

 Syracuse. Quite a few people gathered there. W^e selected 

 ?ome very nice fruit up there, Onondaga County had never 

 cold their apples at wholesale before, they had shipped to 

 the local market, and they said, "We would not care to sell 

 unless we got a good price." We had examined the apples 

 and we said, "What price do you want to put your one bid 

 at?" They said, "Three dollars a barrel." They never had 

 to bid $3.00 and we sold Mr. Hitchin's orchard, a very 

 large one, at $3.40 a barrel, and it set the pace for all the 

 United States as the price on barrel-packed apples. 



