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Thousands upon thousands of bushels of early fall apples 

 go to waste every year, which if taken in time and dried 

 would yield a large income. One bushel of ordinary apples 

 that would not sell for more than from 10 to 25 cents per 

 bushel with the added labor of paring and evaporating 

 would be worth 75 cents at the present prices of the evapo- 

 rated product, and cheap home made evaporators can be made 

 by any one skilled in the use of tools. 



If the product is not large enough to warrant the use of 

 an evaporator, all waste fruit should be fed to stock. It 

 has been shown b}'^ repeated analyses that apples contain a 

 food value for cows and horses of from 10 to 20 cents per 

 bushel and the cost of gathering as they fall can be but 

 little. 



In addition to the value of the fallen apples for food, the 

 fact that many insects are destroyed when they are thus 

 utilized is of great importance, reducing the number of 

 insects for the coming season, and consequently the cost of 

 production of succeeding crops. 



S. T. MAYNARD, 



Pomologist. 



