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shipped for sale either by myself or by buyers. I think it is one 

 of the set-backs to us in obtaining a good price for our apples, 

 to allow our second quality apples to go in for sale. Many of 

 the buyers pack pretty mean apples. 



Q. About how much would you dare to feed your cows in 

 quantity ? 



A. I would commence small and feed a peck or more a day 

 without any hesitation at all. I have fed hundreds of bushels of 

 apples to my cows by beginning in a small way of course, and 

 when I had fed out the last apples I noticed a perceptible falling 

 off in the quantity of my milk. I don't claim any great nutriment 

 in apples, but you all know who keep cows or any stock where 

 they can get at them, that they will walk a good ways for an 

 apple. I am feeding apples to my cows now, or the eleven that 

 I am milking ; I am feeding them a bushel at the present time. 



Q. Do you cut them ? 



A. No, sir. Feed them to them right in the stall where you 

 feed your hay and there is not much danger of their getting 

 choked. Where they can throw their heads up there is some 

 danger. 



Q. Why don't you ship the second quality? 



A. It is a mean product to put upon the market. Some 

 handlers of apples claim that they can get just as much as for the 

 good ones and you can imagine what the efifect would be upon 

 the good ones. I have conceptions of my own about this matter, 

 of course others have the same right. I wish there never could 

 be a second quality apple put upon the market at all. 



Mr. Cook : It seems as if this was quite an important matter, 

 and as my opinion differs from the gentleman's it will do no 

 harm to express it. We want the cheap apples on the market. 

 What are all the poor people going to do for apples if there isn't 

 some second quality on the market that they can buy that is 

 within their reach ? What are these cheap boarding-houses 

 going to do for mince pies if you don't ship the No. 2 apples? 

 Now this is important. We have got to have cheap boarding- 

 houses in our large cities and they have got to get their apples 

 down low so they can afford to board these working people at a 

 low price, and it is important that they have access to these poorer 

 apples ; and they don't come in competition with the first-class 



