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but when we picked them there were 1.450. We had a barrel 

 with 335 apples. That is 112 to the bushel or thereabouts. 

 Those were good, big apples, bigger than any of you fellows put 

 in except in your first grade apples. They ran better. They 

 were certainly an extra grade of apples, as they came of? that 

 tree. It wasn't with the idea of throwing out anything that 

 had a spot on it. It was just for first grade apples. Then we 

 had half a bushel of seconds, in which there were just 60. 

 Those were thrown out for two reasons; they were a little off. 

 Then we had 27 apples for the third grade which were good 

 for nothing. That only measured up four quarts. So that on 

 that tree we had ii2 extra sized apples. 



"Now coming to the second tree, this stood in a row 

 where it was difficult to get the apples picked off. It stood in 

 the row in a way where it was difficult to get at it well. We 

 worked on this tree about four hours. When we came to 

 harvest the apples after that wind — it was after that hard blow 

 we had — we had about three barrels on that tree. We had 

 two barrels of first grade, a bushel of second grade, and half a 

 bushel of third grade. Now looking at the size of those, it is 

 just about 135 to the bushel. Those are just about what you 

 men would put in j^our first grade apples. There is where you 

 want to figure. The seconds were not particularly small. 

 There is a bushel made up of 145. And then there was half a 

 bushel that ran still smaller. 



"Lastly we came to No. 3, which was the biggest of the lot, 

 and we picked on that a little over four barrels of apples. I think 

 it amounted to pretty near four, but not quite. Now just look 

 at the size of those. There you have pretty near 500 to the 

 barrel, or an average of 490. Our seconds run down to over 

 200 to the bushel, and the third were not anywhere. Now I 

 should have liked to go over those apples again, and graded 

 them up to the first tree. I should not have had half a bushel 

 that was graded to the first tree. If I had had time to have 

 graded them like the second, I should have had one about like 

 this run from No. 1 to No. 3. Now the point is, the increased 

 size from the thinning was more than enough to pay the cost. 

 We do not know what the effect is altogether. The result 

 from that one was not altogether satisfactory, but we do know 



