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rating people. After Troths there is no very good peach 

 to evaporate until you come to the Stump the World. Of 

 course we do evaporate Early Craivford, Foster^ Old 

 Mixon, Moore s, and such varieties, but they contain too 

 much water, and don't give the weight necessary for 

 good profit. After Stump, all the other peaches are good 

 to dry, but the best of all for profit, is Smock. Crawford' s 

 Late is good, but as it pays so well, generally, to ship, it 

 is expensive to evaporate. If you want delicious flavor, 

 with all the gustatory attributes of a perfect peach, 

 select the Old Mixon for your evaporated fruit, and the 

 good housewife is indeed fortunate, who can make it her 

 vade mecum. There is more profit, as a rule, in drying 

 yellow fruit, because it brings the best prices ; but this 

 depends a good deal on the humor of the market, and I 

 think that, at present, the white peach is rapidly gaining 

 in favor. At the present prices of evaporated fruit, fifty 

 cents a basket is a large price to pay for Smocks to dry, 

 and for Old Mixons and such, thirty cents is a full price. 

 If evaporated fruit will bring, in the wholesale market, 

 twenty-five cents per lb., pared, and from thirteen to 

 fifteen cents per lb., unpared, you can afford to buy 

 orchards to evaporate, at from thirty to thirty-five cents 

 per basket, delivered at the station, within a reasonable 

 distance of your plant, or at your plant. Smock will 

 evaporate, on an average, say, of five seasons, three and 

 one-half pounds of pared peaches per basket. They 



