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house, after the temperature has been lowered by opening 

 the ventilators in the roof and the doors near the o-round at 

 night and closing in the morning, will scarcely vary in tem- 

 perature twelve degrees during the fall and winter months. 

 In such a house, cider 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 are put on the market, and such 

 choice fruit will sell for more than enough above the ordi- 

 nary 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. 



