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Show Shipping Grab Apples In Car Load Lots HnncMliig of n :m ('Mip of iVars n( (JihmI I'rlri) ('(ininieuies. The W M. Uoylnuce Co shlppeil a ear load containing Slo boxes or erab npples Thursday This Is a lot of crab npples to eome rrom one town and as the growern usually hnve bill one or two trees each they all had to bo canvassed to get enough to make up th0 car. Ono lady, Mrn. Klsie Woslphnl, picked twenty boes rrom one tree and received re-ceived !)0e per hnndred lbs. ror them, fifteen young ladles and n half dozen doz-en men were busy helping to get the carload ready. Koylanco and Co. have also commenced com-menced to receive llartlctt pears. This crop promlr.cH to yield up to, or n little better, than tho average year, this foiiboii, and the prices aie In the neighborhood of 1! cents per pound, a shade better than last year The pour blight sceiuii to be a thing of tho past. With this pest out of the way, pears are ono of the best fruit crops grown In this locality. Pear packing will bo the chief fruit activity for tho next two weeks. This company has thin year shipped ship-ped S cars or raspberries and 7 ears of .lerfersou plums and apricots this year. Itoylanec s engaging in a new Industry In-dustry this season. He has touted twelve acres In this vicinity nnd planted plant-ed It to celery and also planted about nine acres to onions, both or which crops aro doing Hue and promises to bo great successes, lie thinks that t'lnh can pi educe the best celery on earth and proposes to ship It In car load lots to the high class eastern markets. If his experiments are successful suc-cessful It will open u great Industry here. If ntah fruit returns a good profit to tho grower, It must bo picked and sorted carefully and parked In an expert, ex-pert, manner. Heallrlng the importance im-portance of this, Roylnuco this week Is Bonding out lettora to the growers from which the following aro ev-trncto. ev-trncto. "Dear Grower: The peach season will soon habere. Are you ready for It? Have you enough picking boxes? Have you onough pickers to take care of your crop? And furthor have you enough team help to haul your peaches to the loading point. Tho growing of fruit is past the experimental ex-perimental stage; this also applies to the picking and packing of fiult. l'ul a man In charge of jour pickers who understands when the pcaeh Is read) to pick, and also ono who will sec o It that there aro no small peaches piilb-d from the trees ninnller than two Inches In diameter, and only ten per cent of Iho two Inch size. I'lck your trees over as often as necessary o gel the mill off at the right time. See to It thai jour peaches are pack-vl pack-vl solidly la tho bo ' I'lyM . lib only llrst. class mock. Hon t depend de-pend too much on someone else to oxerseo pack and grade- The fact that wo uro going to ttlilp mull) in biihhel baskets nnd boxes Mils year causes us to Impress .upon you more forcibly than over the necessity or oxlreiuo euro all down bo line in the thinning, picking, packing, pack-ing, and hauling or tho I'?1'0"; Other seasons a goodly portion o growers have been careless tor olcklug tho peaches, allow ng them 0,,'nuln In the sun nut 1 the wagou nine along to gather Ibom up loi pac lug Wo in.iHt insist, that the caches after being picked bo placed Tile shade in keen tho f ,u imDHlble Ti s a one of the mi-portant mi-portant parts bearing upon the keeping keep-ing uunllty of tho peaches |