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can be produced from a bushel of apples. 

 With vinegar at fifteen cents per gallon and 

 three gallons per bushel, apples would bring 

 forty-five cents per bushel or $1.35 per bar- 

 rel for the fruit. This means of disposing 

 of all fruit below the barrel and box grade 

 should be carefully considered. In some local- 

 ities and under certain conditions it may prove 

 more advantageous to manufacture the lower 

 grades of fruit into jellies and dried stock 

 rather than into cider and vinegar. All these 

 means of disposing of the lower grades of fruit 

 are open to the producer and he should care- 

 fully determine which one best suits his con- 

 ditions. 



Marketing. Several methods of disposing 

 of the apple crop have been evolved within the 

 last decade. The crop is to a small extent sold 

 on commission the same as other semi-perish- 

 able products, but the commission sales are 

 nowadays a minor factor in the apple business. 

 The American propensity for speculation has, 

 since the perfection of the cold storage system 

 of handling apples, placed this commodity 

 among the regular brokerage stock. While a 

 fraction of the stock placed in storage by the 

 dealers is obtained in the open market, the 

 great bulk of the crop is purchased direct fromu 



