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30111" attention to the prices received in the last few years by 

 5onie of our growers up in our county. I have here a state- 

 ment of one of my neighbors. I consider a barrel of apples 

 will cost delivered at our nearest station one dollar a barrel, 

 and I consider that is a good average cost. If we sell a 

 barrel below that, it is a loss. Now if we consider that a 

 barrel of apples costs a dollar, how often are we selling our 

 apples for less than two dollars? If we are selling our apples 

 for two dollars, we are doubling our money. Now is there 

 any other agricultural product in New England that will 

 match it ? How often do we get three dollars a barrel ? This 

 past fall we were paid all over New England three dollars; 

 it is a wonderful product. This list shows that the average 

 price for apples for the last five years since 1900 was $3.43 

 a barrel. Now^ he got for his green apples in 1900 $2.97 a 

 barrel, and he received for all his number ones and number 

 twos and his red fruit $3.90 a barrel. Now^ in 1894, when the 

 buyers were buying apples up our way at $1.25 and $1.50 

 delivered at the station in the fall, and they wouldn't touch a 

 second, they didn't want them ; he kept his apples through 

 the winter and shipped them at $2.50 net for the number ones. 

 He is not a big orchardist, but he does like a good apple, and 

 he likes to take care of them, and he has always got a market 

 for them in either New York or Boston. I might say some- 

 thing about my own prices, but they don't vary much from 

 his, only I grow more apples and more varieties than he does. 

 His prices are very high, and he has very few unsalable 

 apples, and that is what you want to guard against. Those 

 varieties that I get the best crops from and get the best 

 prices for are the Rhode Island Greening, the Spy and 

 the Spitzenberg. The Rhode Island Greening is a won- 

 derful apple for us, jet it don't sell so high as the Spy 

 or the Spitzenberg, but it bears every year, and this year 

 has been commanding ^as high a price in Boston as the 

 Spy. Don't push on to the market a variety that the 

 market don't want ; hold that variety until the market calls 

 for it. It calls early in the season for the Snow and Mcin- 

 tosh, then a little later for the King and Spitzenberg, then the 



