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stage, a little siilpliuv is burned beneath thein. This has the effect of 

 carrying off the moisture, and the hops are left of a good color. If 

 two much is burned, the color is removed, and the hops are of a pale 

 green. 



Fkaud in Putting Up Apples. 



The chairman, at this stage of the meeting, distributed a quantity 

 of large and beautiful apples, which, he said, was a portion of a lot 

 purchased of a lady farmer in Connecticut, which you see are 

 remarkably fine, and were just the same all the way to the bottom of 

 four barrels. I take pleasure in handing them to the ladies present, 

 as the product of a female horticulturist, or pomologist. I have here, 

 ■ also, some other apples which were put up and sold to me by a man. 

 You see they are miserable, scraggy things, not worth a cent, and the 

 man ousrht to be ashamed of himself for sellino' such trash. Two or 

 three courses at each end of the barrel consisted of large and beauti- 

 ful apples, but a large part of the middle of the barrel was filled with 

 such small, knotty, M'ormy and worthless apples as scarcely a hungry 

 man would eat. I would suggest that some means be devised by 

 which the name of the producer may be made to appear on every 

 barrel of apples that is brought to the city, so that every person who 

 sends a barrel of good fruit may have the praise of it, while he or she 

 who will practice such fraud as this may not escape proper punish- 

 ment for the cheat. 



Mrs. Dr. Ilallock. — Mr. Chairman, I would like to present the 

 apple given to me to any of the reporters here who will make men- 

 tion of this contrast between the feminine and masculine method 

 of doing business in the manner of putting up these two difierent 

 specimens of apples. 



Mr. S. E. Todd.^I will do it ; not that I care for that apple, but 

 because I believe female farmers, and females in any position, where 

 they can have an equal chance with the opposite sex, are capable of 

 discharging their duties with as much satisfaction to everybody as the 

 opposite sex. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter. — I must say a word in defense of fruit- 

 growers, who are assailed for such fraud as this. As a class, they are 

 about as honest as the times will admit of, and very often are not 

 responsible for the packing of poor fruit at all. Of late years specu- 

 lators have been in the habit of buying up the produce of the orchards 

 and packing it according to their own ideas of what is proper. It is 

 not the fruit-gro'.rer, but the fruit-dealer, who is at the bottom of most 



