TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. 



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pie with one or two worm-holes. That is not much better than 

 a cider apple. Where the owner picks his own fruit perhaps 

 he doesn't grade it properly. You get some apples that are 

 worm-stung. You have got to be positively sure that the hole 

 is not an open hole. We once had a fancy grade that allowed 

 that worm-sting, but it is a bad precedent. So now w^e have 

 made an extra fancy and a fancy grade, and that takes in 

 some pretty high grade stuff. 



A Member : How much does color enter into your cal- 

 culations ? 



Mr. Castner : With some varieties it takes 70% of red 

 color. With the Spitzenberg, on the high-priced boxes, at 

 least 75%. 



A Member : Do you get four dollars a box for those 

 fancy "cider apples?" 



Mr. Castner : The extra fancy grades are bringing 

 that high price. 



A Member : What do you get for those "fancy cider" 

 apples ? That is a new grade in Connecticut. 



Mr. Castner: Well, out with us, they bring from $1.25 

 to $1.50. That grade of goods is all shipped to the middle 

 west. It does not pay to ship it east. You have got enough 

 of that here already, sio it does not pay tO' ship it here. Last 

 fall while in Boston, a young man from Maine purchased in 

 the Boston market wholesale a barrel of extra fanc}- Maine 

 Red Baldwins. We took it to the exhibition, and we had a 

 table made to show that barrel of apples on. They told us 

 lots of stories about the good qualities of those Maine apples, 

 and w^hat it would prove I didn't know. We opened the bar- 

 rel, and put it on the table, and I found fifty-two good apples 

 in that barrel, and of five different varieties, — and that was 

 labeled "Extra Maine Baldwins.'' Is there any reason why 

 3'ou cannot get anything for apples in the East when you put 

 them up like that? As long as you continue to dt) tliat. we 

 are going to continue to ship our stuff in here and get a big 

 price for it. We are going to do that just as long as you 

 pack in that way. 



