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for grinding into cider. But when uncovered in January, they 

 were found in so good a state of preservation that many were 

 selected and brought a fair price in the market, which would not 

 have been saleable in the fall. Yet these had lain in the same 

 pile with defective ones nearly two mouths. 



His father is now in the habit of preserving choice apples, 

 Bartlett pears, &c., in his ice house, at Lexington, days and 

 weeks beyond the time it would be possible to keep them with- 

 out, and by this means, a larger price is obtained. The same is 

 practiced by others, and, he thinks, by some who supply this 

 market. But the result of of the Dr.'s observation, after careful 

 notice of some years in each city, has been a conviction that fruit 

 has been gathered and transported with more care in Massachu- 

 setts than about New-York, and he thinks the farmer is best paid 

 for this extra care. 



He stated the experience of the late Rev. Daniel Marrett, of 

 Standish, in Maine, and others in keeping apples by spreading 

 them in a tolerably dry cellar, which never freezes. The apples 

 should be spread on boards about six inches thick, and bins may 

 be made, one above the other, leaving a foot or more of air above 

 the apples. The Baldwin kept in this way is reddened and much 

 improved in appearance. Mr. Marratt and his son have kept 

 their apples in their cellers in this way until they would com- 

 mand a higher price in the spring, in the markets of Portland 

 and Saco. 



In answer to repeated questionings, the Dr. stated that his fa- 

 ther (on whose place he had made most of his observations,) 

 raised a few hundred barrels of apples, more than four-fifths of 

 which were the Baldwin. An uncle, on a farm adjoining, raised 

 still more. They were in the habit of carefully ploughing their 

 orchards every year, and dressing with manure, even where little 

 else was raised but fruit. They usually purchase hogs on pur- 

 pose to consume the wormy fruit which falls from the tree, and 

 lighten the ground about the trees. All the apples are picked 

 by hand, for which they pay 10 or 12 cents per barrel, assorted 

 with care, and no bruised ones ever knowingly put in a barrel. 



