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apple. The same people don't buy them. It seems to me that 

 it is a great mistake to leave at home your second quality apples. 



Mr. Keith : I am glad the brother has brought up that point. 

 I think there can be plenty of cheap apples supplied for those who 

 cannot afford to buy the better ones. Now what I mean by 

 second quality apple is to put in an apple that has from one to 

 half a dozen worm holes in it. Now we have a class of apples, 

 a size of apples when we are packing that is not suitable to go 

 in with a No. i apple, with which we can supply the market for 

 a cheap apple, — put in an apple that is a little inferior for a No. i, 

 what we call a No. i, and somewhat smaller if they are smooth, 

 perfect apples, and you have a good No. 2 apple. I wouldn't 

 object to buying a barrel of them myself if they were free from 

 worm holes at a reduced price. Now I think that that vacancy 

 that the brother speaks about could be easily filled without put- 

 ting in so many wormy, bruised, wind-fall apples. I hope if 

 any one has a point to bring out on this they will for I feel this 

 is quite an important question and one that ought to be talked up 

 among the farmers. I know the evaporated apple has received 

 a set-back. I could always receive for my evaporated apple, 

 without bragging about it, from two to four and five cents more 

 on a pound than others did who put them up in 50 tb. boxes and 

 put up cores, worm-holes and skins on the apples. Our ladies 

 no doubt who have used evaporated apples know this to be a 

 fact, that they always have to look the apples over and trim them 

 before they can be cooked — you don't want a mess of apples with 

 cores in them, they don't relish very well with me. 



Q. Wouldn't that class of apples that you speak of come 

 under third rate rather than second — the wormy, bruised, wind- 

 falls ? 



A. Well, it might be classed, sir, anywhere they saw fit, but 

 in shipping there are only two qualities named. 



Q. Well, we don't generally ship that quality of aj)ples, the 

 bruised windfalls. 



A. I don't know about that. 



Mr. Gilbert : A bushel or barrel of apples is our unit of 

 measure. I would like to ask Mr. Keith how many pounds of 

 evaporated apple he can secure from a bushel, or barrel measure, 

 as he sees fit. 



