104 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



KEEPING APPLES. 



BY J. H. MASTERS. 



Mr. Masters had no paper prepared, but spoke in substance as fol- 

 lows : 



I have no paper, but can tell in a few words how to keep apples — 

 don't eat them. I think a building could be constructed in such a 

 manner that we could keep them a long time; say on the cold-storage 

 plan. 



One thing, apples should be gathered much earlier than most per- 

 sons suppose. I remember bringing a lot of samples to the state fair 

 and in packing up to go home, threw a lot of them promiscuously 

 ] nto a box, nailed it up and put it into the cellar at home, where it 

 remained till mid- winter, Avhen we happened to come across it in 

 cleaning up. On opening this box we found the apples all good, 

 summer, fall, and winter varieties, too, because they had been packed 

 early. 



I packed a barrel of Winesaps real early one fall and thought I 

 would experiment with them; I headed up the barrel and told my 

 folks we would leave this barrel till June. Opened it June 3d and 

 found half a dozen rotten ones, about one-half peck of spotted ones, 

 the remainder sound as a dollar and fully ripe. I took these apples 

 to Omaha and gave them to several persons who were going to Cali- 

 fornia; they took them there and exhibited them in that state. Early 

 gathering is my view. 



MARKETING APPLES. 



BY SAMUEL BARNARD. 



Mr. Barnard had no paper, but his remarks may be summed up as 

 follows : 



Like Masters, I have no paper. I am astonished to find so many 

 fruit growers so careless about the shape in which their apples go to 



