Apnl, Word 
‘ Oh,’’ says the careless 
husbandman,  “‘ that 
There is always a per- 
waste. 
cannot he 
helped. 
centage of fallings that cannot be 
avoided, andthe best. thing to do 
is turn them into pork. So if the 
fruit does not bring in ready cash 
as apples we get a lot of it back in 
pig, which means cash in another 
form.’’ Quiteso. But that is not 
waste. What we mean by waste 
is the better class of fruit that 
drops every morning and is allowed 
to go to the pigs when it may be 
carefully gathered and selected for 
the market. “ Ah,’ says the 
astute orchardist, ‘‘do you think 
the market purchasers do not know 
a’ case of fallings when he sees 
them.” But, 
again, the gardener is not careful 
Of course he does. 
enough to select the fallings that 
are fit for human consumption and 
those that are fit only for pigs. 
He treats the purchaser and the 
pigs both alike, which the pur- 
chaser naturally enough resents 
and will not pay. The refrain of 
the good housewife in the city at 
the present moment when apples 
are in abundance is that she cannot 
get a decent case of fruit. This is 
not theoretical fudge, but absolute 
fact: | 
have met gentlemen who volunteer 
the information without either 
knowledge or bias upon the state- 
indeed, 
pocket 
ment. One man, took a 
sovereign from his and 
handed it to a grower with the 
send some good 
” 
remark, ‘‘ Here, 
fruit to my house. No question 
as to price or stipulation of any 
kind. 
and trusted to the growers’ 
to discharge the obligation, 
must be number of 
opportunities for the grower to 
honor 
‘There 
any such 
During the last few days we 
He just wanted good, fruit. 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
dispose of his produce. ‘he 
trouble, however, is that he is too 
busy with the oversea markets to 
bother about the trifling consump- 
tion of a few cases here and there.. 
And there is where comes in one 
of his disappointments, and his 
satisfaction is just that though there 
is a lot of waste and the price of 
fruit for immediate consumption is 
he makes up for it in the 
aggregate price of his crop. ‘Ihe 
however, finds no 
the satisfaction of 
low, 
city consumer, 
reconipense in 
the grower. 
While the 
quietly up his sleeve at the sum 
total of his crop he looks with 
soine chagrin at the fact that he 
might have done better. For 
instance, the codliii moth 
number of fungus diseases have had 
a great deal more of their share 
than they should have had. There 
producer chuckles 
and a 
again the producer cannot blame 
the moth or the disease, though he 
always does so. ‘The remedy is in 
his own hands, for by industrious 
regard of possibilities he could have 
‘done away with both the moth and 
the disease. His gospel should be 
that his ’ trees” are 
producing a marketable fruit. If 
ga railway engine, 
“ynachines “for 
he were runnin 
or any other kind of a machine’ 
and neglected to clean and-oil it 
and adjust any parts that were not 
working true his engine or machine 
would inevitably break down at 
some time or other, and most likely 
when he least could afford to do 
without its service. 
true of the apple-producing machine 
Tt will not stand neglect. If it 
requires spraying oil it must have 
it, and at the right time. Equally 
if the moth is laying its eggs all 
over the tree, the fruit cannot resist 
‘appointment. 
It is equally’ 
a 
_the conseqttences itself, any more 
than an engine can by itself resist 
rust. ‘The tree must be cleaned and 
if the orchardist will not do it, and) 
do it thoroughly, he must. not be 
Surprised if his fruit 1s rotten with 
disease, or if the inspector should 
happen along and demand that he 
should cut it down. The fault is 
clearly not in the tree itself. 
’ And so the business goes on. If 
the man does not succeed he is 
and 
everything else but himself. He 
is particulary keen on blaming the 
man who handles the fruit after it 
leaves the orchard. 
ready to blame everybody 
The packer, 
the shipper; the home buyer, the 
the seller, all come in 
and dis- 
merchant, 
for a share of his anger 
No doubt the pro- 
ducer has a lot to put up with in 
of the 
one hands that have to deal with 
carelessness hundred and’ 
his goods before the actual money 
is placed to hig credit, but all this 
being So he Should be particuts irly 
cateful to see that he is not w anting 
inthe neceSSary industry and care 
in producing and marketing the 
very best article for conSumption. i 
la MY JEWELLER. 
oe 
ava 4G. W. Cox,. 
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