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been lowered by opening the ventilators in the roof and the doors 

 near the ground at night and closing in the morning, will scarcely 

 vary in temperature twelve degrees during the fall and winter 

 months. In such a house, eider apples, the poorer two grades 

 used for evaporating and the best two grades used for canning 

 are kept with little or no loss until they can be converted into 

 marketable products. Mr. Perkins made the point very clear that 

 the great advantage of utilizing the seconds and medium grades of 

 apples for canning and evaporating is that the choice apples only 



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are put on the market, and such choice fruit will sell for more than 

 enough above the ordinary grades to pay the cost of working up 

 the former into marketable products. This gain in price of choice 

 fruit should be permanent, on the principle that the more such 

 fruit the people have the more they want, and both demand and 

 prices are increased. 



Afternoon Session. 



Vice-President Hartwell was in the chair. The address was 

 made by Prof. S. T. Maynard of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, on the propagation, growth and pruning of fruit trees, 

 illustrated by samples of seedling stocks used for budding, etc., 

 the different methods of grafting, by trees as they come from 



