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■experience that I want to give to you. I had 250 barrels in 

 my cellar I wanted to market them, so I went to Mr. Patch 

 to see what the situation was. Mr. Pa+ch was in New York, 

 attending a conference of the United States Commission 

 men, and it was fortunate for me that he was, because the 

 man of the house would be careful about what he said, but 

 his foreman was ready to talk. I don't know his name, but 

 he was a very genial fellow, and told me just what I think 

 was the truth. He had four barrels of apples. One was a 

 barrel of Greenings that had scalded badly as they did this 

 year. All the apples, in my opinion, were over-ripe when 

 they were picked. That is a bad fault. The others were 

 Bellflower, Baldwins and Tolman Sweets. They all looked 

 nice. I said, ' * Now, what can you do with apples if shipped 

 in here?" He sized me up and said, "If you ha,ve any good 

 Baldwins we can handle them." All he wanted was Bald- 

 wins. I said, "How about this barrel of Tolman Sweets?" 

 I had a barrel of them so I asked about them. — He said, "I 

 have been trying to give that away, I can't get anybody to 

 take it," and they were nice, too. So I asked "How about 

 the Bellflower?" And he said, "No light colored apple sells 

 well when there are high colored apples around." The sum 

 of it was that if you have any good Baldwins you have got 

 a demand for them. I went home expecting to patronize 

 those people, when I got a circular from Cleveland, Ohio, 

 which sounded pretty good to me, and I got in correspond- 

 ence with these people out there. I wrote and asked them 

 what varieties of apple they could handle and they said, "If 

 you have any good Baldwins we can handle them. We are 

 all cleaned up on our market for New England Baldwins. 

 They are good sellers out here and we like to handle them 

 for you; but don't under any consideration ship us any Ben 

 Davis, because we can't sell them in Ohio. The consequence 

 was that I shipped my apples to Ohio and I got $3.50 a bar- 

 Tel. That was in the first part of February. 



The speaker referred to a man that recommended 99 

 Baldwins out of a hundred. I was present at the Pomologi- 

 cal meeting in Connecticut when Mr. Piatt, the Ex-President 

 of the Society, made that statement. Mr. Barnes of Barnes 

 Brothers got up and asked Mr. Piatt if he was going to set 

 100 apples what varieties he would set. Mr. Piatt is a con- 

 servative man and one you can rely on, and he got up and 

 he said, "I don't like to answer that," and Mr. Barnes said, 

 ■"You had better. We want to know." He said, "Gentle- 



