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far from it. If I were to set out any fruit orchards in the future 

 1 should set that variety. What we want is the variety that 

 there is the most money in. That is what we want. Now what 

 would suit me perhaps would not suit you. Neither a chemist 

 nor any other man can tell you what variety of apple will do best 

 in your soil. All the way you can find out is by trying, by 

 experimenting". I have tested that apple enough so as to know 

 that it is the apple I want, and the profit in it is all right. There 

 is no apple on the market today that can sell anywhere with it. 

 1 sold my Mcintosh this year in Boston for $5 a barrel. The 

 Baldwins are in the cellar begging for almost any price. Kings, 

 such as those, I sold for about half of what my Mcintosh 

 brought. The Mcintosh is on the boom and very many will go 

 into it and meet with failure. I know they will. When they 

 first come into bearing they don't do very well, — they grow poor, 

 spotted, scabby, cracked. I started to take the tops off of my trees 

 and put in Baldwins the same as I had others, but by some good 

 luck I missed it, I didn't do it, and the result has been just what 

 I wanted. x\nd I find that the case with very many that I have 

 talked with. Quite a number here have said they had grafted 

 them over, and on inquiring of them how long they kept them 

 in the Mcintosh they said about three years. Now if they had 

 kept them five years I don't think they would have grafted them 

 over, I think they would still have been bearing Mclntoshes. 



Now after you raise apples, the question comes up, What shall 

 we do with them and how shall we get rid of them ? How shall 

 we pack them ? How shall we ship them, and in what manner ? 

 I believe we have been making great mistakes in the past in sell- 

 ing our apples to the apple buyers that come along, and we, being 

 anxious to get in all we can, why, we put in too many of ihe poor 

 apples, and the result has been that our apples have gone abroad 

 and very many of them have been poor apples; whereas if we 

 had thrown away half of those apples we would have got more 

 money than we did. 



Now as to packages, especially last year in my section of the 

 state anything that would hold apples was all right. \\'ell, now, 

 I believe it was all wrong. Cheap barrels are not fit to pack 

 apples in to ship abroad. The package has something to do with 

 it. The better the package the better the apple will sell. Now 



