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apples and there isn't a sound apple in the whole barrel. I 

 don't know whether they sell the face of the apples separately 

 or not, but what is the result on the retail trade? Why, they 

 don't buy any apples. That is all there is to it. I was raised 

 on a New England farm where we had apples fit to eat. What 

 is the final result of the operation? We all buy citrous fruit. 

 Simply got to buy it. Simply got to buy it in New York City 

 to get any fruit fit to eat, unless you buy western boxed apples, 

 and you may consider western boxed apples cost you 10 cents 

 apiece. I can get three very good grape fruit for a quarter. 

 What do I buy? I buy the grape fruit, of course, as everybody 

 else has to do. It seems to me the apple grading law is good, 

 and it rather arouses interest in seeing if anything can be done 

 to get into the market a respectable local apple where the 

 people that live in the State can get some of the apples that 

 grow in that State and get them in good condition. I wish 

 somebody would get busy about it. 



Mr. Van Buren. Well, the gentleman certainly brings a 

 point out about the city of Rochester. I am quite well ac- 

 quainted with it. The good apples they ship away, and they 

 sell the culls there. That is just about the size of it. You 

 can't find in a fruit store good local-grown apples. Rochester 

 has got one large grower. Syracuse has got one large grower. 



There are several stores there that handle Hitchings apples, 

 which are brought in there by crates and in crates and sold 

 there, local-grown apples, but a lot of us really get away from 

 that local market, particularly here in New England. Isn't it 

 so? And in, possibly, your State they get away from that good 

 local market that we have right at our doors, — people that 

 would like to buy good apples and pay good prices for them. 



Now, there are a lot of good barreled apples grown in about 

 New York City. I do not know who buys them. I do not 

 know to whom they go. It is a mighty big place. At the 

 same time, the proportion of good apples may be very small 

 to the total proportion of poor ones, but this buyer for But- 

 ler's stores,, — of course, they are grocery stores and supply 

 the general housewife, — he said, "why, we buy Baldwins 

 and Greenings, almost exclusively." By the way, if you here 

 in New England are going to grow apples for the New York 



