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by color, because some trees will be much brighter than others. 

 If they are put into bins they are all mixed up. 



Q. Then the sorting as a rule is done at picking time ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. How small an apple do you consider a number i apple? 

 Take a Baldwin for instance? 



A. A number 2 Baldwin one year is almost a number i 

 another year. The Baldwin is not a favorite apple with us, 

 although we grow a great many of them. You can beat us in 

 growing Baldwins. 



Q. What is your favorite eating apple to ship to Liverpool? 



A. We don't ship much to Liverpool but mostly to London. 

 One of our best apples between the Gravenstein and the Pippin 

 is the Ribston Pippin, it is a regular bearer. It has some faults ; 

 this year there are some faults that are rather more prominent 

 than usual. It is what we call dry rot ; it commences under the 

 skin, you can scarcely distinguish it, but you cut into it and you 

 find a kind of a rot running way down to the core, and we also 

 find it on the Greening. I really think the Greening is more 

 subject to it than the other. 



I have a list of our ten best standard apples : 



The Gravenstein, the fruit should be smooth, high and evenly 

 colored, and in quality should rank good, or best for both the 

 table, kitchen and market. 



The Gravenstein we think has more good qualities than any 

 other taking it in its season, but being an early apple we can't 

 expect so good a price for it as later ones, although we have 

 received just as high prices in former years, perhaps more. I 

 remember one time when I was farming with my father, we 

 sent a hundred barrels Gravenstein to Halifax, and they netted 

 $4.00 a barrel. The Ribston, the Blenheim, the King ; these are 

 the three kinds that are wanted in the London market up to this 

 time of the year. The last shipments are supposed to leave 

 Halifax in time to be into London the 20th of December, and 

 they are the last we make until the shipment that is calculated 

 to arrive there on or about the 7th or 8th of January. Any apples 

 that arrive between these dates, you can't do anything with them, 

 they are considered stale if they have to stand over. 



After these are gone in the market, we commence shipping : 

 Baldwins, Greenings, Northern Spys, Fallawater, Golden Rus- 

 set. These ten we consider our staple apples. 



