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the last twenty-five years, and more particularly 

 during the last decade. This will appear from 

 certain figures given in the Appendix. The can- 

 ning industry, proper, does not belong to the fruit 

 grower, however. In certain cases the fruit grower 

 plants, tends, and harvests fruit especially for the 

 canning factory. In such cases the cannery is to be 

 looked on as the fruit market, and is to be treated just 

 the same as any other fruit market under similar con- 

 ditions. In a good many instances, however, the can- 

 neries are located near large fruit markets (particu- 

 larly about Baltimore), and depend to a considerable 

 extent for their supply of fruit on the waste from the 

 general market. They take the second-class and 

 damaged consignments off the hands of the commission 

 men. Thus an outlet is made for much waste fruit; 

 but this outlet is not in the fruit grower's control. 



Home canning, although highly to be recom- 

 mended, seldom reaches such proportions as to affect 

 the fruit market, even of the individual who does the 

 canning. In home canning, moreover, the best fruit 

 is apt to be selected, so that it is no longer a problem 

 of utilizing wastes. The work, therefore, has little 

 connection, direct or indirect, with the business of fruit 

 marketing. 



3. Other methods. — Waste apples are sometimes fed 

 to stock, especially to' cows, sheep, and hogs. It is 

 still a questipn'what their feeding value is, though it 

 is certainly not very great. It is better to feed waste 

 fruit to stock than to make no use of it at all. Other 

 fruits besides apples are sometimes fed to stock, par- 



