nd leaf-crumpler, and my apples with codling-moth. I spray when the
leaves first come out, when in blossom, and once or twice afterwards,
ten days apart, with London purple and Bordeaux mixture for codling-moth
and leaf-eating worms. Think I have reduced the codling-moth some. I
stand on a step ladder and pick my apples by hand in a small basket,
then pour them into a wagon. I sort into three classes--sound,
blemished, and rotten. Sound ones are put in crates, blemished are made
into cider, and the rotten ones go to the hogs. I pack in crates, for
convenience, and then store in the cellar. They are made of lath and
1x12 boxing lumber. The lath are sawed across in the middle, the lumber
into lengths of fourteen inches. The bottom and sides are lath one-half
inch apart. This makes an airy crate, easy to handle, two feet long,
fourteen inches wide and twelve inches deep, which when rounded up will
hold one and one-half bushels of apples. I sell apples in the orchard;
also retail and peddle. My best apples are usually sold in the orchard.
Of the second and third grades we make cider, apple-butter, and vinegar.
The hogs get the culls. My best market is at home. I do not dry; cannot
find a ready market, and it does not pay.

I am successful in storing apples in crates in a cellar which has a
wareroom overhead; the walls are of sandstone two feet thick, with six
inches of dry sand between the ceiling of the cellar and the floor of
the wareroom. A door is in the south end, and a window in the north,
with screens so the outside shutter is open all the time except at
noonday sun, and when raining or freezing. There is an air-shaft through
ceiling to roof. The racks or shelves are made of 1x4 lumber, and there
is one inch of space between the crates when slipped in, thus allowing
the air to circulate around them. I have apples in the cellar now (April
25) while my neighbors who stored in bulk have none fit to eat; all are
rotten. I find Rawle's Janet and Winesap keep best. I have to repack
stored apples before marketing, losing about one-tenth of them. I do not
irrigate. Prices have averaged thirty-five cents per bushel. Dried
apples have been four cents for sun-dried and eight cents for
evaporated.

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T. H. GUEST, Grafton, Chautauqua county: I have lived in this county
twenty years. Have an apple orchard of 3000 trees ten years old. For
market I prefer Ben Davis, Missouri Pippin, White Wi