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you can, as near the freezing temperature as you can, and 

 put them into the cellar in a sound state, right from the tree, 

 without any extra handling. You need not disturb those 

 boxes or barrels or casks except as you want to use them 

 during the winter or spring. Every time you handle them 

 you injure the keeping qualities and the perfection of the 

 fruit; and if they are put up sound, free from bruises, each 

 variety will arrive at perfection at its own peculiar time. 

 You need not disturb your later keeping qualities at all. 

 Use the Pippins and Hubbardstons, or any kind that you 

 please, in the early part of the season, and later come toj'our 

 Baldwins and Greenings and Eussets that round out the 

 year. The apple, as the farmer's fruit, should be upon his 

 table in the raw state, and as an article of sauce or food, 

 every day in the year ; and I do not know but it ought to be 

 there three times a day. It is sometimes crowded out by 

 the pressure of other things ; when the fresh strawberries and 

 some fruits of that kind come on, the apple has to give way 

 for a time ; but it is susceptible of being prepared for the 

 table in such a variety of ways, and for such a variety of 

 uses, that it is the cheapest, the most economical, the most 

 healthful, and the most pleasant article that you can add to a 

 farmer's table, or anybody's else table, in profusion. 



There is nothing that will so tend to the healthy develop- 

 ment of children as the enjoyment of all the fruit they choose 

 to eat, from morning to night ; only let them begin early, so 

 they will never hurt themselves by eating to excess. If it is 

 begun early, they may eat them morning, noon and night 

 with perfect satisfaction and healthfulness and enjoyment. 



You will excuse me for having taken up time that did not 

 belong to me in these few rambling remarks. [Applause.] 



Mr. Peterson. Where the mistake has been made of 

 setting apple trees too closely, so that the branches interlock 

 and prevent the sun reachmg the fruit, what is the method 

 of treating? 



A Voice. Cut back and thin out the branches. 



Mr. Gold. I have been advised to try that practice, and 

 I have tried to do something at it, but I made very little 

 progress. I could not instruct my men to do it intelligently 

 and satisfactorily, and I have done nothing at it except a 



