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storage place, dealers being anxious enough to get the apples 

 to come and take them from storehouse as wanted for their 

 trade. Aside from growing the crop our only cost was labor 

 in picking and drawing to storehouse, and carefully picking 

 out all wormy or defective apples, making a grade of fruit 

 absolutely sound, practically no waste in using, and the quality 

 was high, such as to make them preferred for eating to 

 oranges. Therefore the apples sold themselves. 



This goes to prove that one of the best ways to get money 

 out of the apple crop is to stop the leaks occasioned* bv care- 

 less or indifferent methods of handling the orchard and 

 crop, and which is shown in results in the quality of the 

 fruit and in cash returns, and also to keep in mind the motto 

 recommended by Mr. Hoyt. Air. Clark, our Massachusetts 

 brother fruit grower, says, in speaking of the apple crop, "Stick 

 to our New England hills and care well for the orchard while 

 it and you are young, and when you have grown old, it \\'\\\ 

 care for you." Words of wisdom, these of Messrs. Hoyt and 

 Clark. Put them in practice and you will not only realize 

 the greatest profit out of the apple crop, but also have an 

 investment that will surely yield great future dividends in 

 happiness, in contentment, as well as in dollars and cents 



The topic was then thrown open for general discussion, 

 and many questions were asked of ^Nlr. Barnes. 



A Member : I would like to ask Mr. Barnes how many 

 times he sprays? 



Mr. Barnes : I will have to say that our orchard did not 

 get sprayed but once, for the reason that other work interfered 

 when it should have been sprayed the first time, and before 

 I could get to them the second time it was too late, and so 

 we had a little womiy fruit to pick out. We sprayed just 

 before the little apples commenced to turn over. Generally 

 we spray right after the blossoms are oft', and later give a 

 second spraying. 



A Member: Do you get apples every year? 



Mr. Barnes : Yes ; we got a nice crop of apples from 

 this orchard the previous year. It is Baldwin apples quite 

 largely. 



