STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Ill 



Mr. Wheeler — Speaking of the large number of small grow- 

 ers; from your experience of the past what would be your advice 

 to them in regard to canning or evaporating? You purchased 

 and at the present time are using a large steel evaporator; that 

 perhaps was necessary in your business, but would you advise 

 the smaller growers to fit up with steam as you have? 



A. I should advise them to fit up and can the fruit instead of 

 evaporating it as they could run it economically on a smaller 

 scale. 



O. Do canned apples find as ready a market as evaporated 

 ones? 



A. When they are put up in cans the people can't see them 

 and so they buy them. 



HOME MARKET. 

 By W. H. Keith, Winthrop. 



Home market I suppose means American market — a market 

 where we can dispose of our surplus products. To obtain the 

 best returns from any market the first requisite should be qual- 

 ity. Quality of the product, quality of the person producing 

 and quality of the person handling the product in the market. 



This may seem random talk, but I believe there is more satis- 

 faction and more profit in producing a good article and placing 

 it in an attractive form in the distributing houses of dealers who 

 place their goods at their customers' door, guaranteeing value 

 received. 



Within the memory of many of the older persons in this 

 assembly, the marketing of the surplus apples of the farm was 

 done in a meal bag and to break the monotony of the color of 

 the apple a dusting of meal appeared on the fruit when emptied. 

 Small fruits of various kinds growing spontaneously in the fields 

 and around hedges were marketed in pails and baskets. Even 

 the potato formerly was loaded into the ox cart in forty and fifty 

 bushel loads and emptied into a spout and tumbled into the 

 cellar. But time changes everything, such ways of marketing 



