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A Member: Did you have a g'ood crop tliis last vear? 



Mr. Barnes : Some of tlie trees were almost breakinf^, and 

 many of them had quite enou^s^h on them. 



A Member: I would like to ask Mr. Barnes about his 

 storage house and about the ]n-acticability of a farmer stor- 

 ing his apples. 



Mr. Barnes : I think it is very practicable. I will say 

 that the storehouse tliat we used was simply our peach pack- 

 ing house and general nursery storage house, and the apples 

 were not in cold storage, but in this storage room until along 

 in December, when they were moved into the basement of this 

 building. We made a bargain with a dealer early in the 

 season at about one dollar per bushel, with no expense to 

 lis for packing or delivering, or anything of the kind, the 

 apples to be taken at our rooms. They were stored latterly in 

 barrels, but earlier in the picking baskets, which are about 

 the size of a half-bushel basket, stacked up as high as you 

 want, but I will say that such apples as the red russett and 

 Roxbury russett, and others that need a damp place, showed 

 some signs of shriveling. We have a good storage cellar, 

 but our apples were doing very well where they were so we 

 didn't move them. 



A Member: Is the red russet a good bearer? 



Mr. Barnes : Yes. You want to keep it where it won't 

 •shrivel ; it will bear well. 



A Member : Is it an improvement on the Roxbury ? 



Mr. Barnes : I cannot say that I think it is. I don't 

 know as I would plant either at the present time. I would 

 grow a Baldwin myself in ])reference. We have an old lot 

 of trees that were full of dead limbs, and we cut out the worst 

 of the trees, and the rest of them we trimmed out and fussed 

 oVer until we have now got a very fine lot of trees in what 

 are left, some of them forty feet high, and the San Jose 

 scale in them too, because it is pretty hard to reach the top 

 in spraying. 



Mr. Sperry : Do you succeed in raising a continuous crop 

 •of Baldwins, year after year? 



-Mr. Barnes: I should say not, but I don't know why; 

 we got two crops in succession this year and last. I don't 



