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your nearest miller is an energetic person he will attempt to 

 operate his mill for as many months during the year as pos- 

 sible, believing that in the idleness of his machinery and e- 

 quipment, in the loss of his labor he will be seriously handi- 

 capped. The lesson is valuable, comes home to us, and I be- 

 lieve it is more or less true on the farm. I believe that the 

 farmer, the fruit farmer, is at a great disadvantage when 

 his crop is practically concentrated upon a few varieties and 

 into a short market season. As he can only realize on his 

 crop during the one time in the year, that is a very short 

 time, and you peach growers certainly have my sympathy, 

 when I think that you have to take a vacation until next 

 year before you realize on that, your major crop. 



Do not think for a moment that we have abandoned 

 planting Baldwins, for such is not the case. Our four lead- 

 ing varieties at the present time are Baldwins, Mcintosh 

 Red, Wealthy and AVagener. Yet, if we carry out our pres- 

 ent intentions we shall have, practically, Baldwin orchards, 

 unless we have reasons in the meantime to revise our plan. 



It is not my intention usually to confine myself to read- 

 ing from my notes, but in this case, when we are discussing 

 varieties, I feel the necessity of doing so, for there are some 

 descriptions which I feel very sure I could not carry out un- 

 less I had the benefit of notes, from which I will now read, 

 and consider a few varieties in their order of maturity. 



Applause. 



OBSERVATIONS ON APPLE VARIETIES 



YELLOW TRANSPARENT 



After your winter supply of Baldwin Apples is gone, 

 say April 1st, it is very pleasant to think that in a little 

 over 100 days or about July 18th to 20th you will be able to 

 pick the first apples of the new crop, from your trees f-f this 

 variety. Yellow Transparent is of Russian origin; intro- 

 duced by the United States Department of Agriculture a- 

 bout 1870, and was early and strongly advocated by Dr. 

 Hoskins of Vermont. This is about the first variety I re- 

 member in horticultural reading. It has one of the widest 

 ranges of any variety being satisfactorily grown from North 



