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are for me to raise on my own lot, but when asked the other 

 day by a gentleman in Washington county what varieties were the 

 best for him I could not tell. Many of our growers have to their 

 sorrow found out that the Black Oxford and Blue Pearmain are 

 unprofitable varieties. It isn't that they can't be grown well, it 

 is rather that for some reason people won't buy them. It isn't 

 for us to ask why when we learn such facts, it is rather for us to 

 grow' varieties people do want. 



Again, it seems to me there ought to be two kinds of fruit sent 

 to market — one for dessert, the other for cooking. When the 

 fruit growers make the dessert apples conspicuous by the excel- 

 lence of their quality and packing the consumers will be ready 

 to pay the difiference. 



Again, if good dessert apples are always to be found in the 

 market the consumption of apples will be largely increased. It 

 may be the future will have two kinds of growers, the one who 

 raises apples for people to eat, the other for people to cook. My 

 own idea is that the same grower should sort and pack his fruit 

 so as to have both kinds in the market. 



INCREASED PRODUCTION. 



The point to which I wish to call attention is the importance 

 of such intelligent culture as shall cause the orchards to produce 

 the largest amount of the best fruit grown. Too many have 

 simply let the trees grow, this is one way, but in the future the 

 man who knows how to make his orchard produce the most 

 will make the most money. You ask how to do it. Nature has 

 given you all the elements — the soil, the climate. She has never 

 given any man a full revelation of the possibilities by which he 

 is surrounded, but here and there she reveals her willingness to 

 have her wealth utilized by man. 



DISPOSITION OF THE FRUIT. 



It is one thing to be a successful grower of fruit, it is quite 

 another to be a good marketman. Now in the future to get the 

 greatest success there must be some better method of selling 

 our fruit. I have no fault to find with the buyers, for they are 

 doing just what any of us growers would do. Buy and sell wath 

 reference to the profit. It doesn't matter to them whether the 



