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Vol. J.XXVH. 
I’libllsliod Weekly by Tlie Rural riiblishliiB do.. 
Z'SS W. 30th St., New York. Price One Dollar a Year. 
NEW YORK, OCTOR.ER 10. lOl.S. 
Kiitered a.') .Seeond-l’Ia.ss .Matter. .Tune 2(1. 1870, at the Post 
Olllee at New York. N. Y.. under llie Act of March 3, 1870. 
Choice Fruit For High-Class Markets 
Developing an Orchard From the Bottom 
Part T. 
X rtlAT do you know jihoiit the ]trice of nice 
VV XortluMRi S)iy aitplo.s at Van I>-’s fancy 
;;roceryV'' mtis tin* tiucstion itiit to mo by a friend last 
May. 
tion took ])Iace, and had soon tlic iitickint^ of tlio.so 
apples for the Sanito^ti and Sclionocttidy imirkots. 
Tho fruit Nva.s boinj? transferred from tiie oriiiimil 
jtackin.tc htirrols to tho one-iuishel Iiaskots. ready to 
load into tho auto truck. So perfect was tlie fruit 
that there Ava.s rtiroly a moist wraiiper caused by 
decay. I asked tho jirico of a hu.'<hol and was told 
tliat the best grade of Avraiiped fruit sold for $0 a 
best markets in Now York State. The high class of 
help hired and high wages paid in tlie (hmeral Elec¬ 
tric plant lias doveloiied a class of trade that de¬ 
mands the choicest farm jiroducts that the surround¬ 
ing farms can offer. Several years ago Mr. Schaulau- 
began producing choice apples, iieaches. pears, iiliims 
and strawberries in place of the ordinary run of this 
fruit that he and others had been sending to market. 
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The Apjilc on the Tree and “the Apple of Your Eye." Fiy. rjGI 
“.Iiidging by the Mholesale price of those same 
apples, I .should say they might lie selling for 7~> 
cents a dozen.’’ 
“Well, 1 paid 10 cents for a big red apple, and it 
was worth it, too.” 
I had visited the farm of (hsirge R. Schauber, 
Saratoga Co., N. Y., a few days before this conversu- 
l.ushel. “Oiiiy SO to tM.) of these l)ig ones are reipiired 
for a bushel. One other grade slightly smaller in 
size and uinvrapped .sells for t a bushel.” Seventy- 
five barrels of wrapped fruit were put in uatuml 
storage with about 100 barrels of a slightly smaller 
grade unwrapped. 
A COOI) MARKET.—Schenectady is one of tlie 
lie estimated that the choicest \vould sell for enough 
more in such markets as Schenectady and Saratoga 
to warrant the increased cost of production. Ilis ex¬ 
perience has Mell iiroven the Avisdom of the venture. 
He is now getting on(‘-half more to twice the prici' 
paid for the ordinary grade of fruit of the same 
kinds. This he tinds pays foi- the increased cost of 
