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Stand responsible, if you don't, it will drive in another man to 

 intervene between you. 



If the farmer has apples enough he could get just as good 

 returns as anybody. Of course the apples are what the buyers 

 are after; here is Mr. Merrill who is shipping apples every week 

 and if he is noted for putting up the best apples that go too 

 Liverpool he will get the run of the market. There is a good 

 deal in packing apples to go across the water; I have been con- 

 nected with the. apple business ever since I was a boy on the 

 farm, I have bought and packed them and every apple man says 

 he cannot see why so many slack apples turn out this year; last 

 fall the apples that were supposed to be the hardest came in wet, 

 but people said they took just as much pains as usual in packing 

 them. Last fall we had very warm weather and the apples 

 shrunk up; one man said his apples shrunk about one barrel in 

 ten. That don't pay. 



A great many people press their apples enough but they don't 

 get them in right, most people make a cone and press them in so 

 tight and firm they gradually press toward the outside; the 

 right way is to press them so every apple w'ill tighten together, 

 in the other way your apples are all mush and you make your 

 w^et and slack apples all through your barrel. Of course as we 

 turn apples they will pile up and leave spaces, as you turn in 

 your apples turn in one-half a bushel and shake it down and 

 turn in another half bushel and shake it down; that shaking 

 should be the only shaking, shaking as you put them in. 



Air. Athertox — Apples have been packed real nice and 

 before they got across the water they were wet, probably on 

 account of careless handling on board the steamer. 



Mr. Babb — There may be cases where that is true but a great 

 many boats are going across the water and I don't think you 

 will find them rolling their apples as much as they used to. The 

 steamship people see that it is for their advantage to land their 

 apples in good shape. We have some boats that apple shippers 

 will shun; somtimes we will hold back a shipment so they will 

 not strike a boat that don't land their apples in good shape and 

 the men have taken an interest and built their vessels so they 

 can take the apples across in good condition. 



