STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. II7 



A. I have fed hundreds of bushels of apples to hogs, but I 

 never fattened one yet on apples. I don't care what you feed 

 them to there is no fattening to apples; a boy will sit down and 

 eat a peck, but he will eat just as much dinner afterwards as a 

 man would. 



A large fruit grower that I know went into the evaporating 

 business and after he got well under way I said to him, "How 

 much will it cost you? About five cents a pound to evaporate 

 this fruit. How will you get out of it?" "Well," said he, "I am 

 going to make a choice article." But if everybody went into 

 evaporating fruit where would we be? That wouldn't make any 

 more fruit and if the crop was evaporated there wouldn't be any 

 more buyers. There are a great many number twos and we are 

 perfectly willing our neighbor should throw his away, but we are 

 not at all inclined to throw ours away. I have heard men say 

 they only had number one apples. I only thought I should 

 hate to buy their apples. 



Briggs — Why can't you explain how ro pack apples? The 

 ordinary man understands how to pack apples; all there is to it 

 is to pile in the apples and put in half a bushel or three pecks to 

 make it square to go across the water in a tight condition and 

 so continue it till the barrel is full, and properly filled the barrel 

 will arrive in good condition. This is the experience of all ship- 

 pers. 



Atherton — The first year we shipped my fruit sold well and 

 the prices were satisfactory; but again I noticed a good many 

 marked flat and the prices were of course less. Well I found 

 we had got to do something so I sent them more solid, and out 

 of three crates I had only three marked lacking. Then a man 

 came from Boston and he could head more apples than any 

 other man I ever saw. He made me round them up and then 

 press them in together and walk the barrel back and forth till I 

 jounced them together. I said I am afraid you are going to 

 spoil the apples by pressing in too many; well, he said, I am 

 going to have them tight any way, and I will write you of the 

 condition your apples arrive in. The firm wrote "the 'Ax\' (the 

 mark I had for my apples) show very careful packing and are the 

 only apples that have been well shipped." 



