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sometimes run up to five pounds, but for this amount, 

 you probably have to squeeze the basket down harder 

 than the average grower is accustomed to do. Smock 

 unpared, ought to yield from five to five and one-half 

 pounds. Stump the World will yield three pounds, 

 pared, and four and a-half pounds, unpared. Now take 

 all other peaches we evaporate, and no variety will 

 probably yield, on an average, over two and three- 

 quarter pounds, pared, and from three and a-half to four 

 pounds, unpared. As 1 said before, a ton of good hard 

 coal, should make a ton of evaporated fruit, when we 

 are using good material in the fruit. I believe every 

 grower who has five thousand peach trees, or even half 

 this number, with the addition of apple and pear 

 orchards, should have an evaporator of, at least, fifty 

 baskets capacity, in twenty-four hours. It will save all 

 the odds and ends, and such savings in a long life time, 

 will be the chief factor in his thrift, that will make him 

 rich. As to the capacity of the evaporator, everything 

 depends on the surroundings and method of running it ; 

 some may turn out their fruit several hours short of 

 others, but better management and better coal, will 

 help amazingly the first one out. I believe the average 

 evaporator, as it is usually managed and run on the 

 peninsula, will dry, the season through, every twenty- 

 four hours, just what its trays will hold, and this is a safe 

 estimate to calculate on, when you are purchasing a 

 machine. 



