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Black Oxfords and Granite Beauties, and all of those varieties 

 that the buyers don't like to take and later won't go so well, — I 

 hustle those all together and pack them nicely, pack the 2's, pack 

 the small apples any way, and pack the Snow apples before they 

 are fully ripe, and the Kings before they are fully ripe, and all 

 table apples, in ordinary years, that is when Liverpool is in con- 

 dition to take apples — they are not this year — and ship them as 

 early as I can, tr}- to get them off the last days of September, 

 September 25th, along there, and set them a-going across the 

 water, and the chances are that that carload picked up that way 

 will bring more than any car you will ship later. The first car 

 I shipped that way, which included some windfall Ben Davis 

 picked up in September, and windfall Baldwins, any other vari- 

 et}', — anything that was fit for an apple that a woman would be 

 willing to sit down and make a pie of, as a matter of fact natural 

 fruit, good looking apples, gathered them together that way and 

 made up a carload last fall in the latter part of September, 

 shipped them and got a net back of $2.85, — the best market I had 

 for the year. One of my neighbors was in there when we were 

 packing, hustling all we could when every week would make 

 them less price, and half a week for that matter, — he was in there 

 looking at the apples we were handling over there, and he says, 

 "It is a shame to ship such stuff as that and break the market for 

 good stuff." Later I shipped in January a straight car of fancy 

 Baldwins, and got a good price for them, but not as much as that 

 car I speak of, one of the best cars of Baldwins I ever shipped 

 in January, and it netted back a little less than $2.50. But the 

 odds and ends that I got in early netted back $2.85. Now if you 

 get rid of this soft stuff that I have been speaking of, like the 

 Starkey, the Nodhead, the Snow apple and all those, before the 

 railroad worms wake up in them and while they are hard, you 

 won't have them afterwards hanging around your premises and 

 wondering what you are going to do with them — a little mess 

 here, another there. They are all cleaned up and gone and you 

 have got your money and it is the best way to do. The fall is 

 the time in the average year to market your apples, because in 

 the fall apples are new and consumption is greater, and in the fall 

 they are filling the cold storage houses and the consumption is 

 enormous on that account, and the evaporators and canning 

 shops are running and the demand for them is great. It is four 



