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the Baldwin will. We have got a dozen varieties that we ought 

 to g^row more of, but for general commercial purposes it will 

 be pretty hard to find anything to take the place of the Bald- 

 win at present. 



President Rogers : My point is right here. Of course, 

 you all know that I pride myself on raising Baldwin apples, 

 but I do not want to have you all think that I have got noth- 

 ing else on my farm. I have probably got from thirty to thir- 

 ty-five different kinds on my farm, ranging from one limb to 

 three or four trees of a kind. I have got from twenty-five 

 to thirty-five varieties, I should say, on the place, but in the last 

 ten years I have set probably ninety-five per cent of Baldwin 

 apples. I have got commercially the best results from them. 

 This last fall I probably had five or six hundred barrels of 

 the other varieties. When I went into the market to sell my 

 apples, I told the buyers that I had got so many barrels of 

 Baldwins, perhaps twenty-five hundred to three thousand bar- 

 rels, and from six to seven hundred barrels of other varieties. 

 One party said to me, "What can I buy two thousand barrels of 

 apples of you for ?" I told him the price, and we made a 

 bargain. What do you suppose that party wanted ? He want- 

 ed two thousand barrels of Baldwin apples. I had other trade 

 that I have been supplying for years, and the result was that 

 every Baldwin apple that we grew on the farm is sold to-day. 

 I have Greenings yet. That party wanted two thousand bar- 

 rels of Baldwins, but he took about two hundred barrels of 

 the others just to accommodate. If we are going into the ap- 

 ple scheme for the purpose of raising them commercially, we 

 have got to grow something that the people want, that is, 

 something that you can sell in large quantities. If you are 

 going to supply a local trade, then you can build it up, and you 

 can use some of the other varieties, but I think the Connecti- 

 cut market to-day is calling for Baldwins. 



Professor Gulley: Do you think if you had a quantity 

 •of Spys that you could not get rid of them ? 



