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Then what do we know about Ben Davis ? They know because 

 they have eaten them. We don't. They hire apples a good deal 

 there. They go to the grocery man and get a package of apples, 

 a half bushel or whatever they think they will need, and hire 

 them, take them home, put them around on the tables, and what 

 don't get eaten by the company they carry back. And these Ben 

 Davis are first rate to hire. 



In marketing the Spy you have to be a little careful not to 

 press them too hard in and bruise them. Shake them and have 

 something solid to shake the barrel on, and don't give it a hard 

 shaking but shake them gently and press them in with your hand 

 and get them up so you can get your head on it just solid and not 

 press it down much. If you do you will press the Spies right 

 into each other. They are tender. They are a fine grained 

 apple. They are splendid and you want to get them at the other 

 end without showing these dints that one apple makes against 

 the other. You can buy cushions for them which consist of 

 paper with some excelsior between. I think they cost about 2^ 

 cents apiece. I have used them some. Don't know whether 

 they did any good or not. In the bottom of the barrel, packing 

 apples, I would put thin paper because it is cheaper than the pulp 

 head, but on the pressed end you want a pulp head, because in 

 driving in this pulp head will prevent the head from starting the 

 skin on the upper apples. x-Vnd be sure and put just as good 

 apples next to be pressed as anywhere. They will look at that 

 end half the time and they want just as good apples there, and 

 good apples all through. Don t put poor stufif in the middle of 

 the barrel, because it won't pay. I know it won't, too. Don't 

 ask me how I know. You often hear about getting apples ready 

 for market in the paper — "Get very nice apples and face them 

 in." These apples you put in the first tier are sometimes called 

 facers and sometimes called headers or setters, and sometimes 

 it is called deaconing. "Put very nice ones there and nice ones 

 all the way to the top." I won't advise you to pack apples that 

 way. If I were you. and if I were I, and were going to pack 

 apples, I would pack the kind of apples I had, and there is 

 nobody who has that kind of apples. We have apples as they 

 grow. We don't make them grow so and so, gnarly, wormy, 

 or a little bit scabby or spotted, or undersized and all that — we 



