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land, that he cannot start an orchard, and if cared for it will be 

 something that will pa}^ the best of any improvements that can be 

 made by a person of limited means. 



One of the most important things to make orcharding profitable is 

 to know how to dispose of the crop to the best advantage, especially 

 those that are not fit for an extra nice No. 1. I at first got me a 

 cider mill and made large quantities of cider, and I must sell it to 

 make it pay, and in doing so it made me feel so mean that I stopped 

 it. I next tried feeding to stock, but tiiat was not satisfactory. 

 Then after evaporators came around I sold to be evaporated ; that 

 did better. I then bought an evaporator and have evaporated on 

 my own account for several years, and I am better satisfied with this 

 way of disposing of mj' No. 2 apples than any other I have tried. 



When apples are plenty and cheap at harvest time, it requires 

 some faith for most people to be at extra expense to careful!}' han- 

 dle, sort and store them, but it will pay well every time. Roughlj'- 

 handled and badly-sorted ones must be marketed early or they will 

 be in very bad condition later, and then it is that extra nice ones 

 will bring a high price, even if the market is glutted with the poor 

 ones. I have never known it to fail. When 1 sold to agents who 

 were buying for large city dealers, they would not and could not pay 

 me enough extra to make it profitable for me to put up an extra nice 

 quality ; but when I began to send them into market with my own 

 brand, to be sold on their merits, I found it to pay me well to have 

 them very nice in every respect, and if any are a little nicer than 

 the rest, I put them in the middle of the barrel. Only about one- 

 half of the crop will, on an average, make such a quality of No. 

 I's as I send to market, and they will net me more money than they 

 all would put up as apples are usuall3^ About one-half of the re- 

 mainder will make a very good second quality, that will pay some 

 years to send to market, but I usually find it to pay best to evapo- 

 rate them. I consider it absolutely necessary for those who raise 

 several hundred barrels of apples to have each an evaporator, in 

 order to dispose of the fruit satisfactorily. I think that two or three 

 times as much net profit, one year with another, can be made by 

 evaporating the poorest as in an\' other way, especially if pains are 

 taken to make a very nice article. When I say poorest, I do not 

 mean unripe, ill-flavored or crabbed, but that unfit for No. I's by 

 being bruised, wormy or under-sized. Such apples well pared, with 

 extra care in trimming, and rightly bleached and dried, make a very 



