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proached it, but has worked right round it. Now let us 

 know how to produce the good apples. 



Mr. Van Deusex. I said there was no secret. I will 

 sell it to jou if you want it. [Laughter.] To be honest 

 about it, 1 don't know as I can tell here what it is. It is 

 really nothing that I need keep from the public. It was 

 made from linseed oil, whale oil soap and sulphur. I be- 

 lieve there was one other ingredient. I have not used it 

 for the i)ast three years ; I have been growing Durham 

 steers. I have got into another line of business and my 

 mind has rather left it. [Laughter.] 



Ml*. Myrick. You have foro-otten what the other ingre- 

 dient is? 



Mr. Van Deusen. Yes, sir. If anybody is very de- 

 sirous to have it, I can forward it to him. [Renewed laugh- 

 ter. I 



Mr. Beiggs. The gentleman last up spoke of the price he 

 received for his apples. For the last two years I have been 

 selling apples in the city, and this year I obtained from 

 $3 to §3.25 a barrel. 



Question. What varieties? 



Mr. BiiiGGS. They arc Baldwins. I have sold in this 

 town to quite a number of men whose word is probably as 

 good as their bond, and they say they have kept until the 

 last day of August. 



Mr. Myeick. Those were sold to families for consump- 

 tion, not to dealers? 



Mr. Beiggs. No, not to dealers. 



Mr. Van Deusen. I want to say that selling yOO bar- 

 rels at once, and putting them all in at our station, is a very 

 ditierent thing from selling them in town, carrying them up 

 two or three flights of stairs, and delivering them a bushel 

 at a time. 



Mr. Beiggs. I had 150 barrels of apples from a young 

 orchard this year. I have not sold a barrel for less than 

 $2. There is no secret about raising them. [Laughter.] 

 Every apple is packed stem down from bottom to top. If it 

 takes a small apple to fill a space when I am going round the 

 circle I take a small one and put it in. 



