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my own jedonient." And 1, " bein' a woman," was filled with 

 speechless indignation and turning on my heel went into the 

 house. My sister, " bein' a woman,"" went out and gave him a 

 piece of her mind. 



Occasionally, when there are difficult matters to settle or 

 things seem to go wrong with us, some jocose friend says," Why 

 don't you get married and have a man to manage your business 

 for you? "" And we reply th.at it is easier to manage an orchard 

 than to manage a man. 



During the season of 1901 and "02 if I remember correctly, 

 apples sold for a high price. We wished to try our hand at 

 shipping instead of selling to speculators as we had usually done. 

 We decided to consign them to a London firm and having less 

 than a carload ourselves we secured the consignment of other 

 lots sufficient to fill the car, made all the arrangements, had a 

 man at the station to look after the loading and sent them off. 

 The returns were satisfactory. Later the Maine agent for this 

 firm asked me to act as their permanent agent for Wilton and 

 adjoining towns in securing consignments. I felt flattered but 

 declined the ofifer. Since that year we have sold to speculators 

 or shipped to some Liverpool firm as seemed best at the time. 



Two years ago we, like others in this part of the State, were 

 overtaken by a much larger crop than we were prepared to 

 handle. Such a hurrying and scurrying as we had for barrels, 

 buying in all about four times as many as we had ordered the 

 first of the season. The barrels arrived. You should have seen 

 them. Big barrels, little barrels, good barrels, poor barrels, white 

 barrels, black barrels, clean barrels, dirty barrels, barrels with 

 hoops, barrels without hoops, barrels with heads, barrels without 

 heads. Since then we have bought factory barrels, paid less and 

 got more. That year we sold seven hundred barrels of market- 

 able apples besides windfalls and thirds. 



Sometimes we sell early, sometimes late, according to the 

 condition of the fruit and the state and prospects of the market. 

 Sometimes we get a top price, sometimes we get caught. But 

 Oil the whole we have been as fortunate as many of our more 

 experienced neighbors. 



This year the orchard yielded four hundred thirty-five barrels. 

 We sold our Harveys at the orchard for $2 . 50, shipped twenty 

 barrels of windfall Baldwins which netted us $i.82>4 at Wilton 

 station and have put into the cellar all our winter apples with 



