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ence to the apple abroad. That is, we should educate ourselves 

 and the people who buy apples here up to the fact that there is a 

 difference between a strictly No.'l and a No. 2 or a No. 3 api)le. 



Another map around the corner who has insisted on selling 

 apples at a good price and get good ones, has had his stand pretty 

 well covered. He had taken pains in getting nice apples. He 

 succeeded in getting a bushel of Fameuse, and I was interested in 

 seeing how people went along and picked off these apples. Then 

 he wanted some more and he could not get good ones iu Farming- 

 ton nor anywhere around there. He was in Boston and he saw 

 some Nova Scotia Gravenstoins. They took his eye and he bought 

 a barrel of them and paid Si- 50 for them iu Boston and thirty-five 

 cents for freight to get them to Farmiugton, which made S4 85 for 

 the apples. My county will sell to go to Boston several thousand 

 barrels of apples, yet that man cannot now get good apples any- 

 where around. It seems to me we ought to look out for our home 

 markets In order to do that we want to uuderstand the difference 

 between a dessert apple and a cooking apple, and order ouly apples 

 for dessert that are good for dessert, and then when we appl}' the 

 principles enunciated by my friend, INIr. Brown, we are going to 

 find a good and stead}' market in the cities for our apples, and the 

 time will come I think, and I don't believe it is a great wa}' off, 

 when we shall pack apples for dessert use ; and pack apples also 

 for culinary purposes. There will be two kinds. The dessert 

 apple will be the best there is, it will be a No. 1 apple ; the cook- 

 ing apple will be a No. 2 ; there will be a difference between them, 

 so tbat when one sends to market and wants a good dessert apple 

 he will find it in a different package than the cooking apple. 



Mr. WiLLARD : I was very much interested in the talk you had 

 in regard to packing fruit. 1 think the medium sized fruit sells 

 better when packed by itself. There is a great deal in sorting 

 them over carefully. If yon have any defective fruit, pack it and 

 mark it No. 2 and let it go on its merit. There is this thing that 

 is true. We can always get a great deal more money proportion- 

 ately out of our No. 2 fruit than from our No. 1. We never have 

 quinces so poor but what we can sell them. 



