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one snugly and securely. It will pay to put a few folds of soft paper 

 in each end of the barrel and press the contents carefully but firmly 

 tMiiether, so that not an apple can move, no matter how the barrel is 

 sluiken about. It will pay to neatly line the inside of the barrel as it 

 iy being filled up with some thin nicely tinted paper. And when the 

 head has been put in and all firmly secured, it will pay to have a trade 

 mark of your own with which you brand each barrel of fruit thus put 

 up. Does some one say, " Nonsense, this will cost you too much in 

 time and fussing." Let us see. Take tlie Baldwins ; put up in rough 

 and ready style they will bring eleven shillings; put up in this careful 

 way they will bring fifteen shillings, which is one dollar more per 

 barrel. This will pay for a whole day's work. Surely a man can put 

 up more than one barrel in the most careful manner in a day. And it 

 costs no more for the barrel and the transportation when put up in 

 this way than when put up hastily. Now try this on a barrel of 

 Itibston rip])ins. Still quoting from Mr. C'ochrane's circular, we find 

 that a barrel of the rough and ready sort sells for fourteen shillings, 

 but put up with care brings thirty shillings, a difference of sixteen 

 shillings or four dollars per barrel. Will not that pay ? Or is that 

 difference perhaps exceptional ? Let us try the Golden Eussets and 

 see whether a difference of seven shillings per barrel, say a dollar and 

 seventy-five cents per barrel, will not pay. 



But perhaps some one will say, "ah yes, this is all very well on 

 paper, but if I select my apples in this way,, when I have rejected 

 every defective apple and every wormy apple I will have but a few 

 barrels of perfect fruit, and the great bulk Avill be left on my hands 

 wholly unsaleable; oh no, this will novcv do, I must make the good 

 apples sell the poor." Let us look at this, and bring it to the test of 

 figures. Say you would have one hundred barrels of Golden Paissets 

 if put up in the rough and ready style ; these would bring you sixteen 

 hundred shillings in Liverpool. We believe the cost of shipping 

 apples to Liverpool averages five shillings sterling per barrel. The 

 cost of transportation then of the hundred barrels would be five 

 hundred shillings, which would leave the shipper eleven hundred 

 shillings for his hundred barrels. Say that by this process of careful 

 selection the quantity is reduced to sixty barrels. These would bring, 

 according to Mr. Co ([notations, tliirteen hundred and eighty 



shillings. Deduct live siiUiib 'uirrel for freight, three hundred 



