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that after you get one variety picked you can get them out 

 of the way as quick as you can, 'because another variety is 

 Vv^aiting for you at the close of that. Now there is a time for 

 picking. The time to pick is when they will pick easily. 

 You ought to leave the apples on the trees as long as you can 

 safely and get all the color and all the size you can. With us 

 I think we don't have as long a time as you do, from some 

 information I gathered from Mr. Hale yesterday, which was 

 ver}- new to me, but in our country we don't have as long 

 a time between the ripening of one fruit and the ripening of 

 another ; we don't have as long a time in the blossoming. 

 As he tells me, one blossom will come out and the other will 

 lie dormant aside of it, but up in our country our trees will 

 blossom in a day, and the blossoms are gone in a day. Some- 

 times you go out into your apple orchard and you think your 

 apples will stand two or three weeks yet, and you go back 

 there again two or three days after, and you will find half 

 of them are dropping-, and when the time comes for them to 

 drop they will drop very quickly, yet some years they hang on 

 until the snowy weather, and so the different varieties need 

 to be studied. 



The packages for the Xew England apple is a very 

 important topic, which I spoke of a little while ago 

 I am like our friend from the Boston market, I like a barrel 

 the best for the New England apple, and I think I always 

 will, because, as he has told you, you can get more for four 

 barrels of good number one apples than you can for three 

 common number ones and one barrel of selects ; the difference 

 is not enough in a nice, choice box of apples, and a barrel that 

 contains a good grade. Again, the facing surface is very 

 important in all our markets everywhere you go. It is a very 

 important matter that the facing of a box or barrel of apples 

 is perfect. This dealer or any other Boston dealer will tell 

 you if you have one poor apple in the face of a barrel, and 

 a man comes up to buy a barrel of apples, he will see that 

 particular apple, and he will hold you there until he has beaten 

 you down in your price. But if they are all good, he will 

 take that barrel of apples and go off satisfied. But the facing 

 -of a box is more than the facing of a barrel ; you have three 

 .boxes for one barrel, so ycni see it takes more time to face up 



