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several stores that call themselves first class grocery stores, 

 that handle now and then a box of western apples, but 

 otherwise than that there isn't a store I know of that has 

 bought a decent apple this winter. They will pay $1.50 — 

 the best grocery stores paid $2.00 a barrel — they will ask 

 forty cents a peck for those things, which is what they 

 ought to charge for the very best they could buy in New 

 England, and they charge that price for those little things 

 consequently, the man working for $2.00 a day, if he buys 

 a few quarts, can't afford to pay the price for the best ap- 

 ples. 



For the number two apple that is just what it is rep- 

 resented to be there is a legitimate market. Some of them the 

 working people can use, but when the grocery stores pay a 

 dollar and a half or seventy-five cents a barrel and ask five 

 cents a quart for a core and skin it is an imposition and 

 they don't sell. There is lots of need of working out a co-op- 

 erative system; of distribution for the apple. 



A Member. Here is another kind of trouble that we 

 didn't mention today, and I would like to hear Mr. Smith 

 say how he treats the Railroad worm. I would like to know 

 what he does with it on his sweet apples. 



Mr. Smith. In answer to the gentleman, I will say that 

 we have not got it seriously. We had it seriously a few 

 years ago and put ourselves to great expense to destroy all 

 the trouble, and you people who raise Hubbardstons and all 

 the sweet varieties, I can tell you there is no control except 

 to destroy the fruit. This is speaking about the railroad 

 worm or the apple maggot. All varieties are subject to this, 

 but it is more prevalent on the yellow and sweet sorts. 

 Your Baldwins may be infested with it just the same, but 

 not nearly as likely to and it doesn't develop until the fruit 

 goes into storage. 



A Member. It is on the Baldwin? 

 Mr. Smith. Yes, but not so prominently. 

 Mr. Morse. I would like to ask, in regard to growing 

 Baldwins, if it is necessary to inter-breed other varieties 

 with them in order to get the best results ? 



Mr. Smith. I can't answer that. I can simply give you 

 these suggestions — Western New York has been putting in 

 the heaviest plantings of Baldwins and today those are in- 

 terplanted most carefully. Of course, in ordinary years and 



