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or five or seven times in the fall what it is later in the winter. 

 The foreign markets will take great quantities in the fall when 

 they have no large crops over there — sell 50,000 in a day and not 

 break the markets. Later in the season instead of all this extra 

 demand by the storage plants and the packing houses and all 

 those things, they are putting their stuff on the market, and they 

 are coming into competition instead of being an outlet. You 

 could not sell your apples this year anyway, fall or spring, but 

 in ordinary years the fall is the time to get rid of your apples, 

 and you are not worrying about whether the rats will eat them 

 or they will freeze before spring. Get rid of them and begin 

 planning to raise some more the next year, and what you will 

 do to your orchards. The Russets and Ben Davis ought not to 

 be shipped until after the turn of the year, after the first of Jan- 

 uary. And you need not worry about your Ben Davis. They 

 will sell easily. They do this year. They will every year. This 

 may be guess work. One man's guess work is just as good as 

 another's. These apples would sell now. One of my neighbors, 

 Mr. George Aver, shipped some Ben Davis just as soon as he 

 gathered them this year, got back about $1.40, got about the 

 same for his Baldwins— might have varied a few cents, not much 

 difference. Some of the later cables quoted Baldwins and Ben 

 Davis right neck and neck, but later in the season the Ben Davis 

 will do better, although they will do something, ship them 

 in the fall. The time is to wait for the turn of the year for both 

 Russets and Ben Davis, but it is a good time to ship Baldwins 

 as soon as they are gathered. You can't get Baldwins into 

 Liverpool too early after they are colored up ; and as to those 

 early apples like the King and Starkey, Nodhead and that class 

 of apples, get them off a little before they are fully colored and 

 let them color a little in the barrel going over. The English say 

 they do, and if they think they do that is all we care about, — they 

 buy them. 



Now as to the markets being over with for Ben Davis. Don't 

 you suppose the English know as much about Ben Davis as we 

 do? Why shouldn't they? They have been eating Ben Davis 

 there for twenty-five years, they have been chewing on those Ben. 

 Davis for twenty-five years, and we haven't eaten any. How 

 many here have eaten any Ben Davis? There isn't any one. 



