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the states cannot sit on Connecticut ; she can grow apples, she 

 can grow peaches and strawberries, and it is up to you to get 

 the quality. The gentleman who just preceded me mentioned 

 that subject, and I would only like to emphasize it a little 

 further. It is the quality that is going to count; the world is 

 going to produce any amount of fruit, but it is not the quan- 

 tity of fruit that is in demand in any market, and the best 

 thing you can do is to devote your energies in getting a good 

 quality, and not having so large a quantity. At the Interna- 

 tional Apple Association, held in Put-in-Bay last August, the 

 fact was brought out that a very large class of the vinegar 

 produced in the United States was adulterated, and was not 

 made from apples, and that if all the vinegar that w^as used 

 was made from apples, it would take off the market a very 

 large quantity of what we call seconds or cider apples, and 

 that is true, I think. But for all that, I think a man had 

 better have a hundred barrels of a fine quality than to have 

 two hundred of an inferior quality. He saves the labor of 

 picking ; he saves the ground in growing them ; he saves the 

 prices of the packages and the time in packing them and ship- 

 ping them to market, and if he sells them at home, he gets 

 more money out of the one hundred barrels of good fruit than 

 he does out of the two hundred barrels of inferior fruit. I 

 was asked last evening and this morning quite a good many 

 times about the box for a package. I don't want to precede 

 any thing or antedate anything, but I don't think that in the 

 eastern markets the time has arrived for the box package. 1 

 am still a barrel man, and, as far as I read the handlers of 

 apples in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. I think the 

 unanimous opinion would be for the barrel. I might interest 

 some of you who have asked what the prices of apples were 

 in our city by saying, that you are getting near as much for 

 apples here as we can get for you in our city. Of course, 

 we have had some very nice apples — Kings — that have sold 

 for $8.00 a barrel, and the market for Baldwins is ranging 

 from four to five dollars. There are some fancy Baldwins 

 put up that are bringing six dollars, but you must understand 

 those that are bringing six dollars are apples that you get 

 three or four barrels out of possibly ten barrels, strictly num- 



