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Show EARLY APPLES ARE FOR LOCAL MARKETS Cannot Be Stored to Advantage for Any Length of Time-Danger Time-Danger of Overplanting. Early apples cannot be stored to advantage for any length of time, and for that reason they must be used up shortly after arriving on the market. mar-ket. They cannot be placed in cold storage during the winter, as they are not as good as the later fruit and they cannot be shipped without considerable risk. For this reason the early apple is distinctly a product for the local market and the advisability of planting plant-ing more early apples in any section will depend entirely on the market conditions con-ditions which the grower should determine de-termine for himself. There is no doubt a danger of over plunting of early apples, and In some sections an orchard of early apples would not be profitable. However, in many districts near fair-sized cities people are found to like the first apples ap-ples on the market and the grower who can raise good early apples is surer of a profit than the grower who raises the later varieties which will receive much competition from other apple-growintj apple-growintj sections. |