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right, but the upper fruit in those cases was quite scabby, show- 

 ing the difference in the amount of work that was done. 



I want to say a word or two about thinning the fruit. I 

 have a notion to say something about the cost of thinning. We 

 have no doubt about it, for with us, as with most everything else 

 in that h'ne, we went through all sorts of different trees with the 

 spray pump, and for thinning the fruit to increase its size. The 

 big blow in September destroyed what record we had that 

 would amount to anything, but we did, however, thin, and 

 made some data to see what it cost. Working upon the Bald- 

 wins, because I took that kind for a sample, I found that it cost 

 us, allowing fifteen cents per hour, or $1.50 a day, on some 

 trees about thirty cents. We could thin some trees for about 

 thirty cents. Some of our trees, upon which there were four or 

 five barrels, were thinned at a cost for hand labor, picking 

 carefully, at seventy-five cents. That was the highest; some at 

 sixty cents, some at fifty cents, and so on down to about thirty 

 cents, or about two hours" work on a middle-sized tree. That 

 was satisfactory, but right here I want to ask a question. How 

 many people know how many apples there are in a bushel? Is 

 there any gentleman here who can tell how many Baldwin 

 apples there are in a bushel, or in a barrel of apples? 



A Member: "One hundred and seventy-five." 

 A Member: "I should say about a hundred." 

 The President: "It depends whether you get them for 

 first quality or second quality." 



A Member: "One hundred and ten to one hundred and 

 twenty." 



Professor Gulley: "I am asking how many apples in a 

 bushel of Baldwins. Good, fair apples, according to the stand- 

 ard fixed by the apple buyers of the United States at 2/^ inches. 

 That is the first growth that I am talking about. I am going 

 to tell you how many I found. First, I got through thinning 

 on different trees. I have some figures; three trees, each one 

 by itself. I had another thinning of fruit, but the record mixed 

 up in such a way that I was not able to carry it out. The 

 first one took about two hours to thin, and from that tree we 

 took about 600 apples, and I expect we left 1,200 on that tree, 



