The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-08-12

'"Nh 81 CHip1pyeu dii Lle NOFk
generally requires a fortnight.
The rale is to pick tie trees clean,
and not to let 90 Of an apple until
1t rests in the basket The latter
are laid carefully on the ground,
and the teamSter picks them up
with equal care and CONVEYS them
to the apple-house. The latter is
one of Mr.. Pell's inventions and he
has four of them in use. They are
spacious structures, perhaps 40 oy
100 feet (such, at least, is my
recollection from seeing one of
lhem). and are what might be
called two stories high. The first
has no windows. You enter by a
wide door, and the apples are seen
covering the entire interior to the
d pth Of fonr feet. The upper part
of the building has few windows
and the door is drafted, so that when
closed there is an ascending
draught. The fruit will, while in
this place, discharge a very large
amount OF moisture, and thus deliver
itself from the chief cause of decay.
An apple house at such time is
really fine sight. In three DAYS
the sweating is done and the
draught removes the moisture.
The fruit is then sorted, and all be-
low certain size are carted to the
clder-mill, while the rest are packed
tor shipment. They are placed in
boxes, each of which contains 100
OF the best Newtown pippins, and
are at once shipped to Liverpool.
Mr.. Pell'S fruit is as well known
there as here, and he has adopted
the custom which prevails in the
orange and lemon trade in this city
viz: selling it at auction
"The sales are largely attended,
and the pippins from Pelham farm
are sold all over Europe. They
sometimes bring fourteen cents
apiece by the box. Such is the val
uatlon OF reputation, and in this
point the Pelham fruit has for forty
years been unriyalled.
"Mr. Pei has eighty acres de-
voted to grapes, which are in great
demand IN this city. He has "a pc
cnliar way Of placing the best (if
there be any differeuce) at the bot
tom of the basket; and. hence, his
brand needs no recommendation
lie has 800 acres under general cul-
tvatlon, and with the assistance
Of improved machinery the work is
done by nlne regular hands, with an
extra force during truit-picklng.
His hay is got in the same day it is
cut, and hence does not get injured
by a shower. His cider is as popu-
lar as his apples, and he has some
times ground and pressed $4,000
bhshels. His walks around his
mansion are nine miles in extent,
and are kept in perfect neatness.
"iir. Pel's corn is as great IA
curiosity as his orchard. 1t has
measured eighteen feet high, and
has yielded l5O bushels shelled corn
to the acre, while other farmers
were complaining Of the crops.
Mr.. Pell explains this very philo-
sophically. lie tells me that the
leaves Of corn, being very broad,
arr meant to inhale the gases float
ing Ill the atmosphere. Hence this
plant should be driven forward as
rapidly as possible, in order to get
this gaseous TODD at an early part
of the season. 70 accomplish this
end, the land must be manured in
lavish manner.
''W hen corn is planted on poor
land, according to this theory, It
has to send its roots far and near,
in order to fad food; and, hence,
its development is checked Mr..
PelPs corn has small roots, rela-
lively speaking, and the expanse of
tops enables him to make it a profit
able crop when land is worth $500
per acre. Perhaps, if some Of his
views were more generally adopted,
a better style Of farming would