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fifteen cents per pound. Under the most favorable cir- 
cumstances one pound of the evaporated fruit will about 
pay for the cost of evaporating a bushel. Moreover, 
‘the skins and cores need not be wasted. A bushel will 
give about three and a half pounds of skins and cores, 
and these sell for two and a half and three cents a pound 
for making into jellies. 
Of ordinary apples from seven to twelve bushels are re- 
quired for a barrel of cider. Wholesale dealers are now 
selling cider in limited quantities at ten and twelve cents 
pergallon. At present prices, cider apples certainly ought 
to bring a fair return beyond the cost of manufacturing. 
Cider vinegar, at retail, brings about a half more per gallon 
than cider, and it is generally in fair demand, though in- 
ferior vinegars seriously interfere with its sale. The 
local demand for cider vinegar is usually good among 
those who appreciate its superiority. Apple butter is 
coming into the markets to some extent, and were it 
manufactured in sufficient quantity to give certainty to a 
market, it would, no doubt, soon come into general de- 
mand at good prices. 
SHALL WE PLANT MORE ORCHARDS ? 
This is a perennial question, which presents itself 
after every season of low prices in fruits, and one which 
acts as a stumbling-block to the general farmer and fruit 
grower alike. The impression somehow becomes current 
that the prices rendered the grower from metropolitan 
dealers in these years of great plenty should determine 
the future supply of fruit. This is a fallacy which needs 
correction.. The farmer is bound to be undeceived if he 
