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has been the same in all cases, and has resulted from 

 the same causes. It is cheaper to buy soap than 

 to inake it, easier to get ready-made socks than to 

 knit them, and equally easier to buy dried fruit than 

 to dry it one's self. It is a question of division of 

 labor. The man or the stock company that makes a 



FIG. 4 — SIMPLEST FORM OF EVAPORATOR. MADE TO SIT 

 UPON THE KITCHEN STOVE 



business of drying fruit on a large scale can do the 

 work to much greater advantage than the farmer or 

 the farmer's wife. His product is more uniform, better 

 in appearance, and perhaps also better in quality than 

 the home-made article, while at the same time it can 

 be sold at a much lower price. 



Fruit drying and evaporating, therefore, has been 

 almost wholly taken out of the fruit growers' hands, 

 and has fallen under the management of specialists. 

 Under ordinary circumstances the fruit grower has 

 nothing to do with it except to deliver his peaches or 



