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very easily take an apple and pinch it in such a way he won't see 

 any bruise at the time, but if it is a delicate apple that bruise will 

 show up not very long afterwards. What we try to do is to 

 pick the apple in the hand without squeezing it, and then place 

 it in a basket. We don't drop it in the basket but we place it 

 down in the bottom of the basket. When we come to sort we 

 do it in the same way, take them up by hand from the basket 

 and put them by hand down in the bottom of the barrel, place 

 them. And don't allow one apple to drop on another. It takes 

 a little bit more time and it takes a good deal more trouble, but 

 it produces a satisfactory article, and produces an apple that 

 will keep. Even the most delicate apple, if it is handled prop- 

 erly in that way, will keep in a way that a much harder variety 

 won't keep if it is treated as if it were a lump of coal and 

 dropped into a basket, and then rolled out of the basket into a 

 pile. 



Then my experience has been that in selling apples, it is a good 

 plan to look up the character and the intelligence of my buyer 

 pretty well. I not only look up his financial standing — I look 

 that up to see if he ranks well in Bradstreet's — but what I want 

 to find out most about the man is whether he knows the differ- 

 ence between a good apple and a bad apple. And when I go to 

 a new buyer I always get him to take me into his storage houses 

 and see if he knows the difference between a No. i and a cider 

 apple. I don't believe in selling apples to those fellows who 

 don't know the difference between a well packed barrel and a 

 poorly packed barrel. I think a man who understands good 

 fruit and good picking and good packing is a much more satis- 

 factory man to deal with, if you have got a good article. If you 

 have got a good article, then he knows enough to know it is a 

 good thing, and he will treat you better, give you better prices 

 for that fruit than a man that doesn't know anything about it. 

 So I like to see my buyer out in the storage house, like to look 

 over his fruit; and I like him to be a little careful and see 

 whether I know the difference. I like to have him put me 

 through an examination and see what I know about apples, see 

 if I know the difference. 



Then one other thing that I want to speak about is manuring. 

 I don't think we can put too much dressing on our orchards. If 

 we are going to get good apples we have got to put an everlast- 



