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Question 13. Very much. 



Question 14. No. 



Question 15. Have never tried it. 



Question 16. My best market has been at home, to 

 the canners. In 1884 I sold to a Cincinnati dealer at 

 65 cents all through. This year I sold to a Dover 

 evaporator for 43 cents per basket. I evaporated all the 

 eanners did not want until my evaporator was destroyed 

 by fire two years ago. Pears sell very slowly in the city 

 markets. 



Question 17. Lawrence, first ; Bartlett, second. 

 Peaches. Pears should be evaporated more slowly than 

 peaches or with less heat. If hurried too fast their edges 

 become dark, and this spoils there appearance. Some 

 pears are not worth evaporating. Pear-growing is very 

 discouraging. The trees are expensive, and after nursing 

 them for twenty years, you do not know at what moment 

 they may be stricken dead with blight. The market is 

 very easily glutted and I do not think they ever will be 

 grown very extensively. Authors differ widely as to the 

 management of the pear orchard. Some say heavy 

 manuring and frequent cultivation is best, others pursue 

 an opposite course. Some say that starvation causes 

 blight, others, that manuring and cultivation produce it. 

 I have four Bartletts, dressed for the last four years, 

 annually, with a load of good horse^dung. The blight 



