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very few wormy ones. We picked the apples by hand, and did not 

 pour them from one basket to another without putting soft hay or 

 oat straw between them, while pouring them. We put straw on the 

 floor of the room in which they were stored; there was also straw 

 put on the bottom of each basket, and in the bottom of the cart we 

 carried them in; all this was done to keep them from bruising. After 

 they were housed we sorted them, rejecting all which had defects, and 

 if damp, wiping off the moisture. We next took each apple, and 

 rolled in coarse clean paper, any soft paper will do (the paper I 

 bought was common wrapping paper, straw paper will answer.) The 

 paper had this effect, it keeps the apples fiom rubbing against each 

 other, and keeps them at a certain degree of moisture, not allowing 

 them to evaporate or receive damp. In the bottom, and around the 

 sides of the barrels a small quantity of straw was placed, and the 

 apples laid in one at a time, and as close to each other as they possi- 

 bly could be, without jamming. When the barrel was filled, a little 

 more straw was put on the top, and the head of the barrel put in, 

 ■with an inside lining hoop to prevent the head from being knocked 

 ia. There was besides a lining hoop, put in the bottom head of the 

 barrel before packing. The apples when packed in this way were 

 tight in the barrels, and could not be made to rattle by common 

 usage. They were sent to Sheffield in England, and on being un- 

 packed there were found sound to an apple. 



Those apples which have a close tight skin will keep the best, for 

 the greatest length of time. Of this kind are the Newtown pippin, 

 Lady-apple, Russet, and the real Rhode Island Greening. 



CURING HAY. 



Pellham Farm^ July 18th, 1846. 



1 state in as few words as possible, of my process for the benefit 

 of those fond of trying experiments, and desirous of getting in a 

 crop of hay at an expense of five shillings and sixpence per ton. 



On Monday morning, the 6th of July last, at half past 4 o'clock, 

 I commenced cutting a thirty acre field of timothy grass, and Satur- 

 day evening the 12th at 7 o'clock, the contents of the field, seventy- 

 five tons, was stowed away in my barn for winter consumption, and 

 I can assure you, th^t it is in as perfect order, as the sample now be- 

 fore you, presenting to the eye the same green appearance, which it 



