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ver3'few No. 2 apples for sale. That question hasn't troubled me as 

 yet. 



Different varieties must be sorted differentl}' in packing. Such 

 varieties as the Hubbardston Nonsuch you should not put up any 

 specimens that you would avoid if they were set on the table at the 

 hotel as they are a purely dessert apple, while the Baldwin and other 

 varieties like it are more of a cooking apple, and many specimens 

 that would hardly be suitable on account of being off color or per- 

 haps a little under size to be set upon the table are very nearly- as 

 good for culinary purposes. 



To illustrate, about eight years ago, I had 75 barrels of Baldwins 

 for sale. A man from Portland buying apples in the vicinity' called 

 and looked them over and offered $3.00 per barrel for the No. I's 

 and a much less price for the No 2's, he to help put them up. I 

 got his estimate as to the number of barrels of No 2's, and he 

 thought about 10 barrels. I told him no, those apples should not be 

 divided in that way at that price In a day or two one of the pres- 

 ent members of a large firm in Boston called and looked at them and 

 wanted to buy. I told him ray price was $3.0 ), takuig all the sound 

 apples. He says, all right, I don't see any No. 2's there and I will 

 take them. He came with his man and put them up and did not 

 leave a peck of sound apples. 



While filling the barrels they should be well shaken down, then 

 fill nearly an inch above the top ; the head is placed on and pressed 

 down and well nailed. That is to be the bottom of the barrel when it 

 gets to market as it is marked on the other end. I have for a number 

 of years sent my apples to Boston to be sold on commission, and I 

 have never failed to get full quotations and usually a little more. 



Mr. Pope. I will just make this remark, that I think it makes 

 considerable difference what variety you are putting up and where 

 you are going to send it ; whether it will pay to take extra pains in 

 packing. If you have some fancy fruit that 3'ou are going to send 

 to the Boston market it will pay, and pay well to sort verj' carefully. 

 If you are going to ship apples abroad, the size makes but little 

 difference as compared with what it does in the fall apples sent to 

 the local or Boston markets. A small sized hard apple is acceptable 

 in England. When we are packing our Kings and Gravensteins 

 and Fameuse for the Boston market the better they are sorted the 

 better the price. 



