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Bloom  on  Exhibition  Fruit 
Is  fruit  for  exhibition  polished,  or  must 
the  natural  bloom  be  left?  t.  it. 
New  Jersey. 
A  good  answer  to  this  is  the  experience 
of  David  K.  Bell  of  Brighton,  X.  Y.  Mr. 
Bell  was  for  many  years  one  of  the  most 
successful  exhibitors  of  apples  and  pears 
in  the  entire  country.  lie  started  early 
in  life  to  make  a  feature  of  this,  and  be¬ 
came  an  expert  exhibitor.  He  tells  us  the 
story  of  ho  tv  when  he  was  a  young  man 
he  took  an  exhibit  of  pears  to  a  fruit 
show,  and  was  very  anxious  to  make  a 
fine  display  and  win  such  prizes  as  he 
could,  so  he  got  up  early  and  went  to 
the  show,  and  looked  the  exhibit  over  to 
put  a  finishing  touch  upon  if.  Some  of 
those  pears  did  not  shine  with  a  polish 
such  as  he  wanted  and  so  he  took  out  his 
cloth  and  began  to  polish  them,  using  a 
good  deal  of  elbow  grease.  lie  thought 
he  was  doing  a  beautiful  job.  until  a  lit¬ 
tle  man  who  stood  nearby  watching  him. 
came  forward  and  touched  him  on  the 
shoulder. 
“Young  man.”  said  the  stranger,  “I 
wouldn't  do  that.  You  are  wiping  out 
the  natural  bloom  of  the  fruit,  and  giv¬ 
ing  it  an  unnatural  polish.  The  judging 
will  be  done  on  the  natural  quality  of 
that  fruit.  I  wouldn’t  do  that,  it's  the 
worst  thing  an  exhibitor  can  do.” 
Mr.  Bell  listened,  and  wanted  to  know 
who  this  man  was,  and  he  found  it  was 
Charles  Downing,  the  highest  authority 
on  American  fruit  at  that  time.  Mr. 
Bell  says  he  never  forgot  that  lesson 
given  him  by  Charles  Downing,  and  he 
never  again  would  attempt  to  polish  or 
scrub  exhibition  fruit,  for  nature  puts 
the  natural  bloom  on  the  cheeks  of  the 
fruit,  and  nothing  can  ever  improve  upon 
nature’s  work. 
PROTECT  THE  LITTLE  ONES 
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was  66%  higher  than 
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Change  the  Drone  Trees  Into  Profitable 
Varieties 
Here  in  the  East  at  least  nearly  every 
farm  has  some  fruit  trees  that  could  very 
easily  be  changed  into  varieties  that 
would  bring  the  owner  larger  profits  if 
raised  for  market,  and  give  his  family 
more  enjoyment  through  the  improved 
quality  of  their  eating  apples.  Times 
have  changed  ;  and  no  country  family 
should  eat  and  use  for  cooking  Baldwin 
drops  as  soon  as  they  show  color,  and 
live  on  that  variety  practically  all  Win 
ter.  Yet  the  Baldwin  here  is  our  best 
all-round  Winter  apple,  especially  as  a 
fair  eating  apple  (if  well  grown)  and  a 
cooking  apple  for  those  who  do  not  wish 
to  pay  fancy  prices  through  the  Winter 
months.  Every  farm  where  apples  are 
grown,  and  some  which  do  not  now  grow 
them,  should  beside  the  Baldwin  have  at 
least  one  R.  I.  Greening  and  Spy  (if  it 
can  he  successfully  grown  there),  and 
two  or  more  McIntosh,  which  by  all  odds 
for  much  of  New  England  is  the  best  late 
Fall  and  early  Winter  apple  grown.  No 
family  should  be  without  this  apple,  and 
the  tree  comes  into  bearing  quickly  when 
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This  and  Banana  are  of  no  value  as  cook¬ 
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white  cucumbers  since  that  date.  A 
farmer  gets  in  the  habit  of  growing  green 
cucumbers  and  fancies  there  can  be  no 
other  color.  It  took  a  genius,  like  the 
late  Mark  Twain  to  live,  die  and  be 
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as  well  as  a  green  cucumber.  And  it 
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