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them anywhere, and when you get to carrying them down cellar, 

 take one of those boxes and dump it into the chute — it is much 

 easier to handle than a barrel, or even a box. You can scatter 

 them along in the field and let the boy make his pile there and 

 not have to lug to a barrel or to the cart. 



Now I shall run against some things I have heard talked of 

 here today in regard to marketing apples, and I hope not to come 

 out as bad as the man who told the African prince that he had 

 seen water so cold that it would be hard and you could walk on 

 it, and the prince ordered him out and had his head cut off. But 

 ycu want to see both sides of all questions. In marketing apples 

 I should market No. 2's of good, hard, red apples, surely. I 

 should market No. 2 Kings and No. 2 Baldwins and No. 2 Ben 

 Davis. I wouldn't market No. 2 Spies or Russets or Bellflowers 

 or soft table apples. That is the result of my experience. Expe- 

 rience makes me believe in that way. A No. 2 Baldwin will 

 bring almost as much in Liverpool as a No. i. They don't dis- 

 criminate there very much as to size, and they will accept worm 

 holes with good grace if they are not woodchuck holes — too 

 many and too large. In shipping to Liverpool, the main thing 

 is to have a red apple that is hard and packed clean, no leaves 

 or litter, long stems, anything of that kind. And get them tight 

 into the barrel, more by shaking than by pressing hard when you 

 get to heading them up. I have had the No. 2's bring more than 

 the No. I's more than once or twice. I have got very good 

 returns from a car of straight No. 2's this year, as good as I 

 expected, or should have expected had I sent ones. You know 

 Baldwins are very red this year and not wormy, nothing much. 

 1 took them down to less than two inches, some of them. They 

 were very pretty, looked like cherries in the barrel, packed clean 

 and tight and nice, and they went over there and they sold for 

 10-6 in Liverpool, and that gives a very good net. Why I hap- 

 pened to have this carload of No. 2's, I was shipping apples to 

 Aroostook. They have to have a pretty nice apple there. You 

 can't send them anything that will measure less than 2^/^ 

 inches — it wouldn't pay you to, at any rate— and I sent a carload 

 to Caribou and a carload to Houlton. But I had quite a good 

 many No. 2's, the size apples run now. The first carload I got 

 10-6, the next one I haven't heard from yet. 



