338 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



tion of the United States government in this work of exterminating 

 this pest, as we believe it will be a national calamity if allowed to 

 spread over the country. 



The speaker for the morning, Mr. C. H. Perkins of New- 

 ark, N. Y., a man of wide experience in handling the apple 

 crop and in the evaporating and canning business, was then 

 introduced, and discussed in an able manner "The preserva- 

 tion, storing and marketing of fruit." A brief report of this 

 address we copy from the "Worcester Evening Gazette : ' — 



Mr. Perkins said the subject was an immense one, and 

 more than he could present in the time allotted for the dis- 

 cussion. He first considered the question of cold storage, 

 basing his remarks upon an experience of thirty years in this 

 line of agriculture. He would not be understood as refer- 

 ring to the large cold-storage houses, where fifty thousand 

 bushels of pears were kept for canning, but rather the neigh- 

 borhood cold storage, the co-operative plan. The advantage 

 to be gained l)y co-operative cold storage was to preserve the 

 trade, for the Canadian shij^pers stood ready to mono})olize 

 that trade if they saw an opportunity. 



He spoke of the extensive apple orchards of the country 

 and of the great demand from European markets. The 

 value of the evaporated fruit was demonstrated from a finan- 

 cial stand-point when the speaker said that in one county in 

 New York State of not more than fifteen towns the value of 

 the product was fully one million dollars. He told of a 

 frost-proof storage house that he had built to store ten thou- 

 sand barrels of apples. When oranges were sold at a cent 

 a piece, the cry was heard that it would be no use to raise 

 apples. As a matter of fact, apples still sell for more than 

 oranges, not only in this country, but in Europe. 



When discussing evaporated apples, the speaker exhibited 

 a number of specimens. An evaporating plant varies in 

 expense, as there are many kinds of evaporators. Those 

 costing from fifty dollars to one hundred and seventy-five 

 dollars will evaporate fifty bushels a day ; those costing one 

 hundred and seventy-five dollars to two hundred and fifty 

 dollars, from one hundred to one hundred and fifty bushels 

 a day ; and those costing three hundred dollars will evapo- 



