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apples. There were several barrels of No. 1 apples, but they 

 were packed in this way. Here was Grade A, No. 1 apple, 

 and Grade B. All of them fair-sized perfect apples. Now if 

 all our customers were just alike, and they did not care any- 

 thing" about the size of the apple, perhaps this would not pay, 

 but in other cases there are certain particular customers who 

 want their apples of a certain size, in those cases it pays to 

 put them up in a way to suit the trade. Perhaps, in the case 

 of a restaurant or hotel, if we can get one hundred and fifty 

 apples in a bushel, it may satisfy the customer. 



There is a man in Michigan named Charles Cook, who 

 grows strawberries. He is very careful indeed how he puts 

 his crop on the market. He grades every box that he sends 

 out. For his good berries he receives twenty-one cents a 

 quart. He is never troubled about any glut in the market. 

 Of course, he gets that price for his finest fruit. Well, some- 

 body says what will we do with the low grade fruit? A 

 great many people say they cannot afford to throw away this 

 low grade fruit. I contend this. There is no reason why 

 the low grade fruit should come in competition with the 

 other. We can sell the low grade fruit to other people. It 

 does not come in competition with the high grade fruit, for 

 the people who buy that class of fruit never would buy any- 

 thing but the high grade fruit. If the market will not take 

 it in any other way so as to dispose of it, we can dispose of 

 the low grade in other ways. We can evaporate them. We 

 can make them into fruit juices. Since we have the present 

 pure food law it has opened up work along that line. I think 

 the farmers could study these things to their advtantage more 

 than they have. I believe it would pay every community of 

 fruit growers to establish among themselves an evaporator or 

 canning factory for using all these sulphur products, — not 

 only for the use of these low grade products, but for the use 

 of products when perhaps the day may come when there is 

 a little glut in the market, and so use up this surplus fruit in 



