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Show - Shipping Grab Apples In Car Load Lots llnnr.fiii; of n (.'ond 'i0p f ivai n( Cnml I'rJn ('eminences Tho W..M. Uoylanec Co nlilpixl a bar load eonllnIii(? MO boxes of crab apples Thursday. This In a lot or crab apples u . rf,mo r,-ol ollc town and as (ho growers usually have but one or two trees each thoy all had to be canvassed to gel enough to make up dio csr One lady. Mrs. Klnlo Westphnl, picked twenty boxes from one tree and re-celved re-celved JlOe per hundred lbs. for (hem. Fifteen young ladles hiiiI a half dozen doz-en men were busy helping lo get the carload ready. Itoylenee and Co. have also commenced com-menced to ivceho llartlett pears. This ci op promises lo yield up to, or a little better, than the nvcrago year, thin season, and the prices are In til" nelghlioihood of - cents per pound, a nliade botler than last jenr. The pear blight soenis to be a thing or tho past. With this post out or tho way, pears are one nt Hip best fruit crops grown lu this locality. Pear packing will bo tho chief fruit activity for the next two weeks. This company has this year shipped ship-ped S cars of raspberries and 7 ears of .feffert-on plums and spileots this year. Itoylanee i engnging In a new Industry In-dustry this season. Ilo has rented twelve acres In this vicinity and planted plant-ed It to celery and also planted about nine acres lo onions, both of which crops nro doing Due and promises to be great successes, lie thinks thnt ( lull can prndmo th" best celory on enrth and proposes to ship 11 In cur load lots to tho high class eastern markets II his experiments are sue-ces-.ful It will open n great Imlustn here If I'liih fruit returns n good piollt to the grower. It must be picked and sorted carefully ami pneked In mi expert ex-pert manner Koiillr.liig tho Importance Im-portance of this, Itoyhineo this weok Is sending out IqUqts to Ih'J growm from which tho following arc Ox1 tracts. "Dear Grower: 'I be peach season y soon be here Aro you ready ror it? Have you onoiigh picking boxes? Have you enough pickers to take care of youi crop? And furthor have you enough team holp to haul your peaches lo tho londlug point. The glowing nt Hull Is past the e-prrlmenlal e-prrlmenlal stage; this also applies to tho picking and packing ot fruit. I'ut a man lu charge or your pickers wlm undorHlnnds when the pencil is readj to pick, and also one who will se :o It thnt there me no small penehos pulled fiom the trees smaller than two Inches in diameter, and only ten per cent or the two Inch sine. Pick your ti'is over as nfli'ii as neeossnri to pet the milt oft nl the light lime See to it that jour ponchos aio pack ed solhllv lu the bo.os or baskets a Ith milv llrsl class stock. Don't depend de-pend loo much on someone else to oversee paclf and grade. The fact that wo ale going lo slili some In bushel Imskctu and boxei this year causes us to Impress upon you more forcibly than ever tin necessity or extreme cure all tlowi 'he line in the thinning, picking, packing, pack-ing, nnd hnuling of the peaches Other sonsons a goodly portion of tin grovvors have been careless after elcking the peaches, allowing them to remain In tho sun until tho wuijoi came along to gather then, up fin packing. We must Insist that tin peaches utter bring picked be placen !n the shade to Hop the tin I as coo as possible. This is ouo of tlio lm portnnt parts hearing upon the keep lug (Utility of tho ponchos. ,., . .- it-" - |