I04 . state; pomological society. 



Now there is another end — to every string there are two ends. 

 You say "Don't send the No. 2's" and keep back all these 

 apples — give them away or something and only ship half or two- 

 thirds of your apples — all No. I's — and you will force up the 

 price. If everybody did that I think it would force up the 

 price. What would the poor fellow do who has to live in the 

 garret and hasn't much money to spend ? He wants some apples. 

 Why, you ought to ship your No. 2's and let the boarding houses 

 have some apples, some mince pies for the servants and all those 

 things. Can't everybody pay five to seven dollars for a barrel 

 of apples at the other end. Ship them some that they can reach 

 with their pocketbooks. Apples are a good thing — pass them 

 around. 



Different varieties of apples do better in different markets. 

 If you had a carload of Bellflowers, they would be as valuable 

 almost as any apples raised shipped to Pittsburg or Cincinnati 

 or most any western market, a carload of nice Bellflowers gotten 

 in without pressing as much as possible, as nearly as possible, 

 and shipped to most any w^estern market would bring good 

 returns most any year; but they are not of any account around 

 here. So it depends somewhat on the market you are going to 

 ship to. Nodheads sell well in Portland and Waterville. They 

 don't know much about them in Boston. Providence they do 

 very well. Providence is a good Greening market, although the 

 Baldwins are coming into favor there more in the last two or 

 three years than before and consequently Greenings are not in 

 quite as good demand as they were. The Mcintosh Red will 

 sell anywhere. But just one caution about that Mcintosh Red 

 business. If you don't feel within yourself that you can spray 

 your apple trees at least three times a year and every year, don't 

 set any Mcintosh Red. The last two or three years we have had 

 a dry June and these spores that spoil the Mcintosh Red have 

 been falling around just the same, but when they came down on 

 the apple tree, they found it dry and they died ; but if we had 

 had it hot and moist along about the loth of June those Mcintosh 

 Reds wouldn't have been worth shipping anywhere. They are 

 almost sure to be scabby. It wasn't because the trees were 

 young. I don't care if they are a hundred years old, if we have 

 a favorable season for the scab it will spoil your Mcintosh Reds 



