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pours liis apples on it. A man stands on each side of the 

 tal)le and sorts the fruit, another man faces the l^arrels with 

 nice well colored fruit, another levels the top for the header, 

 so then we lace tliem at hoth ends with nice perfect apples, 

 and make two grades, the first grade measures two and a half 

 inches in diameter and up, and the next grade measures two 

 and a quarter up to two and a half, and the second grade must 

 be as free from scab as the first grade and nothing but good 

 clean fruit put in either grade. We use a rubber stamp for 

 marking our barrels for the name of the variety and grade 

 and name and address of grower. I also have a dating stamp 

 when it goes to the cold storage. We keep a book account of 

 when our apples are picked and when stored, and we know 

 exactly where they came from. We always pick out the 

 wormy, inferior apples ; the wormy ones we put in with the 

 dropped ones. Last year we even sold our dropped apples to 

 the cold storage people. 



.V few years ago the people in my part of the country didn't 

 spray, but for all of that, there is now hardly a grower but 

 what sprays and most of them are going to spray more this 

 coming year.' A. neighbor of mine, just across the fence, had 

 a five-acre orchard ; he didn't believe in spraying ; we did ; he 

 didn't believe it would pay; he said he had apples as good as 

 ours, but perhaps not all of them were as good. I told him 

 I knew it would pay. He wanted us to spray a row through 

 the orchard and I told him I wouldn't do that, but we would 

 take a contract to spray the whole thing and he wouldn't do it. 



I told him, then, I would spray a row along the fence next 

 our orchard. Then I offered him $100 for the chances of a 

 crop and he took it. I believe the trees were 12 years old and 

 there were 225 trees — I sprayed them and cleared $300 above 

 all expenses. The fruit from the trees we didn't spray were 

 scabby all over; the foliage was diseased and there was quite 

 a showing of bitter rot. He said there might not be a cro]) 

 the following year, and he would take the same f(M- the next 

 crop, and also we could take an orchard on a lower ground, — he 

 thought it wouldn't work there. We took it but it happened 

 to be a bad year, we had a frost at tlie time of bloom and 

 afterwards bad weather; people laughed at me and said I was 



