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THE APPLE 



The economic usefulness of an apple evaporator is chiefly through 

 its utilization of windfalls and the poorer grades of fruit which 

 cannot be marketed to good advantage in a fresh state, and it is 

 these grades that are most often evaporated. But the magnitude 

 of the apple crop also greatly influences the grade of the evaporated 

 product. In seasons of abundant crops and low prices for fresh 

 fruit, large quantities of apples that would ordinarily be barreled 

 are evaporated and the grade of stock produced is correspondingly 

 improved. On the other hand, in years of scanty crops, when all 



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Fig. 1 60. Apple evaporator 

 solution of bumper crops and culls. (Courtesy of Sf. Joseph Fruit G> 



apples that can possibly be shipped are in demand at high prices, 

 only the very poorest fruit is usually evaporated, thus lowering the 

 grade of the output. 



During the development of the industry the machinery and 

 other appliances used have undergone great changes, until at the 

 present time a high degree of perfection has been attained. 



Apples suitable for evaporation. The commercial grading of 

 evaporated apples is based primarily on appearance rather than 

 on dessert quality, and the fact that one variety may make a better 

 flavored product than another is not considered. As a rule, a 



