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size, as the same size for core is taken out of apples of every size. 

 The machine cuts a core of equal size whether the apple is large or 

 small. The difference in the size of the apple makes a difference 

 in the number of pounds of the product. The product is sold at 

 eighteen cents a pound ; six pounds of evaporated fruit from a 

 bushel would give one dollar for the evaporated fruit from a bushel 

 of apples. The cost of the operation is not heavy ; so that that is a 

 very fair price to get even for perfect fruit,— a price fully equal to 

 what we get in our most fruitful years. 



Jordan. I have a relative in Fayette who has made money from 

 his large orchard. He has dried a good many apples ; sliced them 

 and used a kiln to dry them in ; though within two years he has 

 commenced evaporating. He says you don't want to evaporate 

 bitter-sweet apples. The more sour an apple is, the nicer it is for 

 this purpose. It uses up that sort of apples. He has dried from 

 one to two tons a year. I think there is an advantage to be gained 

 by orchardists in using up everything. Every man who has a good 

 orchard can have an evaporator of his own ; he need not let it go 

 into the hands of others ; he can own one of these machines that 

 cost $60 or $70, and keep it himself. That is where tlie advantage 

 comes from. He need not form companies while he can get all the 

 profit himself. 



S. ^V. Shaw, Minot. There is one point which has not been dis- 

 cussed. If evaporated fruit from natural growth, does not sell for 

 so much as that from grafted fruit there is a reason for it. That 

 reason is this : Evaporating fruit does not change its nature. If 

 we would not go into our piles of apples gathered for cider and 

 promiscuously select our fruit for the market, neither should we select 

 in that miscellaneous way for evaporating, provided we design to get 

 a good product. That is business. A clear sour seedling apple is 

 good to evaporate ; is worth as much as a grafted one, and would 

 bring as much ; but a large proportion of our natural fruit is not 

 well flavored, and evaporating it will not make it so, consequently it 

 makes a poorer product. Yet it is desirable to work up poor apples, 

 because they will sell and that class of fruit will find a market. One 

 more point. The price has been quoted at eighteen cents a pound. 

 That is so. Last year our friend from -Winthrop sold his fruit at 

 Lewiston for ten cents a pound, and was glad to do so. He said he 

 paid out twenty-five cents a bushel, so you can make your own 

 calculation with regard to the profits. Six pounds to the bushel at 



