STATE POMOLO'GICAL SOCIETY. II5 



the first two requisitions, they fill up with first and second class 

 fruit mixed, a very objectionable method. Let your ones be 

 ones and your twos be twos, but in packing twos it is better to 

 select medium sized and good colored ones to face the barrel, 

 putting about a peck or one-half bushel of pluggers close to 

 them and filling the barrel with regular stock. 



How to pack and press in this fruit so as to be solid and 

 arrive out tight is quite a trick but those who know how can do 

 it nearly every time; that is, barring accidents, they are reason- 

 ably sure of its arriving out tight. It is useless, however, to 

 attempt to tell just how to do it; everybody must learn them- 

 selves through their own experience, or by observing those 

 expert at the business. 



IGNORING THE TWOS. 



Some people say a number two apple should never be ship- 

 ped abroad or to any market, and a good many buyers this year 

 refused to purchase any but number one apples. This is all 

 folly. People who talk that way really don't know what they are 

 talking about. If there were no number two apples raised that 

 would simplify if not settle the matter, but there always have been 

 and there probably always will be number two apples raised. 

 If everybody would evaporate or make into vinegar, or feed to 

 their stock their number two apples that w'ould reduce the 

 amount of salable stock and advance prices, but everybody 

 won't do it, for evaporated apple is low enough now; there 

 would be no profit in making more cider-vinegar when that 

 already made will not sell at paying prices, and the feeding value 

 of apples is too small to be considered. Moreover number two 

 apples sell better in foreign than in our own home markets and 

 frequently bring much more than they would if evaporated. 



They sometimes sell abroad within one shilling or one shilling 

 sixpence of the best and as long as that is the case no one will be 

 willing to throw away or evaporate that class of apples. There 

 are too many of them. We are perfectly willing our neighbor 

 should throw his away, but are not at all inclined that way our- 

 selves. In order to get over the difficulty I have heard some 

 farmers say they didn't have any number two apples this year or 

 none to speak of. All I can say is, I should hate to buy that 

 man's apples at his way of thinking. 



