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if you don't spray them. If you are willing to spray, and know 

 you are going to spray, then you can't beat it, for in its perfection 

 there is nothing better. There is nothing better than the Spy 

 in its perfection, but it is a little difficult on an average to raise 

 them that way. 



There is no difficulty in any man shipping his own fruit to 

 Liverpool. Most of you, and perhaps everyone in this audience, 

 knows as much about this as I do, but there may be some one 

 that does not. Any man can ship from one barrel to a thousand 

 to Liverpool just as easy as he can ship apples to Portland. 

 When you get ready to ship your apples and want to try the 

 Liverpool market, get into correspondence with some of the 

 Liverpool commission house agents who are very plenty in Bos- 

 ton — you can easily learn the address of some one of them — and 

 tell him what you want to do and about what time you will be 

 ready to ship, and he will write you right back, if you want to 

 ship such a day, bill them East Boston, care of the Cunard line, 

 or another day, bill them to Charlestown, care of the Dominion 

 line, and all you have got to do when you bring your apples to 

 the station is to go to the station agent and tell him what your 

 Boston agent has told you, bill these apples so and so according 

 to the instructions I have received from the Boston agent. After 

 you have done that then there is nothing more until you receive 

 your account of sales and check. The expense of shipping a 

 barrel of apples to Liverpool from here will be about $1.25. I 

 don't know just what your Boston rate from here would be, but 

 the commission rate is two shillings and five per cent thereot, 

 which would be about fifty cents, and there is about twenty-eight 

 cents for dockage and that kind of dues, and a cent for cable- 

 grams to tell you how much they have brought, and five per cent 

 commission — if the barrel sells for $4 over there that will be 

 twenty cents, and some other minor dues makes it all probably — 

 depends something how far yoCi are from where you ship them, 

 where they take the steamer, — probably about $1.25 besides the 

 packing. You would know about that as well as any one, what 

 that would cost. 



Now don't get down on the apple buyer and think he gets 

 more than his share, because he doesn't. How many buyers have 

 you ever known to get rich? They sometimes make quite a lot, 



