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worth over half fi million of dollars, were shipped to foreign 

 countries, and about the same will be shipped this year ; and 

 as fruit picking time has arrived, let me tell you what he 

 says about picking apples for shipping. Pie says, " Pick your 

 apples before they are fairly ripe, so that they will wilt a little, 

 and handle them very carefully like eggs, making two liberal 

 culls as you put them in your barrels, looking out not to rob 

 the cider heap on the second one ; barrel them under your 

 trees as you pick them; shake them down carefully, pressing 

 in the head with considerable pressure, so that an apple will 

 not move in the barrel. After being headed up, turn them 

 down on the bilge, and in teaming, handling or storing, keep 

 them on the bilge all the time, because there is less weight on 

 the apples. On the same day they are picked put them in 

 the cellar, throwing open the door and windows occasion- 

 ally, never picking them over until the barrel is opened for 

 use ; every time they are handled they sweat afterwards and 

 sweating promotes decay. Let a man put 25 barrels of apples 

 in his cellar and set the barrels on their head, and keep 

 picking them over as fast as they rot, he will be picking ou^ 

 rotten apples all winter with but few sound in the spring ; but 

 let him put 25 barrels, picked, handled, and stored on the bilge 

 in the cellar, and let them alone, as 1 recommend, they will 

 all come out sound in the spring, with perhaps here and there 

 an apple rotted so diy as not to affect any other. Baldwins 

 and Russets are best for shipping, with Hubbardstons for early 

 shipments." 



With this statement I will close, by expressing my heart- 

 felt wish for future success to the pioneer industries of Essex 

 county. 



