The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-10-09


OF the apple. know that much Of their
fruit Il un6t Tor market. being either
Wormy, specked, scabby. knotty, o.
email. Nov, ali this fruit can b uti-
lixed BY the evaporation. and placed upon
mot necessary 10 have . large establish
msnt 70 accomplish this result. There
ere driers with their cspacities, ranging
from one 10 two bushels Of green apples
per day up TO thousands.
4 The work can be done just o we'll and
% cheaply on ten bushei machine . 10
any Of the large factories. and my expe-
risuce has been that they are the least
expensive. Often Il will pay to evspo-
rate the whole crop. have often real
lied more for culls than for The shipping
fruit.
\ One hand can run tan bushel drlsr,
with twenty-five cent? worth Of tuel /.
and make fifty pounds OF white fruit
per day, which, 81 ten cents per pound.
about the average price. would net four
dollars and ssventy.hve cents, making
nearly 6fty cents . bushsI. including the
days work. and, st THE years prices,
would be over seventy cents, and u the
Wsste is dried, almost dollar.
| Again. one important point thus
gained Il cullIng out your shipping fruit.
msking Il grade fancy and thereby OBJ
tain the highest market price for Il.
4 Market only the best. evaporate the
rest. Thus you would avoid the break
ing down the markets for the green
fruit. This Il always done By inferior
stock being run on the market. and
never BY good choice fruit. We can.
at nearly I'll times, sec apples quoted on
the market at IS cents to 81 Is per bar
rel. These represent loss 10 the grower.
ian OF this kind should never 60 on the
market, but IN the evaporstor. The
world Il your market for evaporated
fruit: you have nearly four barrels Of
apples In 6fty pound box. that can b
shipped Just % safely 10 Alaska, China,
los India @ to st. Louis. and you need b
In no hurry to market u. Next spring
II q good @ this fall, and often better
] prices are obtained.
IL when properly packed. and with
. proper storage, Il can b kept for years
g iresh and sweet @ when 6rst pre-
pared. except . little l0se 10 color, but
Ileven this may be overcome by cold
lstorage.
j II prices ere % low - they were two
: vesrs aao. whom it was worth only from
flour TO elk cents : pound. and the waste
and chop less than one cent, Il can saSely
i, be kept over until there 10 . shortage
alike The present, when fifteen cente cau
1 be obtained for the white fruit. and fous
fivs cents for chop and waste. The
s|chop Il apples sliced just . they are
81 without any pairing or c0riue. and dried
Elm this the email snd knotty apples that
; cannot be pared ere used. The worh
tIis done quite rapidly with machine
elmado Tor the purpose. Forty or my
. bushels can be sliced in IN hour By two
J, ,Ihsnds.
! -pounds Of chop. which ID now worth
: four cents . pound.
vi The Waste 10 the skins. cores, and
ltrimmings from white fruit, which needs
limo other preparation only TO put II IN
: the evaporator, dry and pack it 10 sacks
eIor barrels ready for shipment. Il i
o used Tor making jellies. and usually
, brip9s about one-helf cent more than the
D chop. Most Of the chop 10, under
dlstand, shipped TO Europe and there
|f|msn uiacsured into 6ns wines and senl
elbeck TO this county, and cold at from
y Ione to I've dollars . bntsle. The price
Iis, therefore greatly Influenced and gov.
By the grape crop 10 the old coun.
vItrv. Nauy Thousands Of tons ere manu-.
! lfactursd each year. Everything can BE-
dl a delegate said: II think stiIl more
|csD Be done than the gentleman says
}. lsvsporated come I 400 pounds Of fruit
n which sold for ten cents per pound.
J, ,|mads nee Of every part Of The fruit, ex'
l,|cept tho wormy part. vinegar wea
4 llmsde Of the waste. ! sold some ton o.
. nltwelve barrels ct twenty cents per gsI'
aIlon, % 90 per barrel Of forty-stght GAL
! Dllous.
! II picked ont the choicest to ship and
B the Guile aod secondes which
D would have damaged the whole lot u
: -Ishipped together. The vinegar apples
!. made nearly . much money . any.
aInested o66, using cider mill that cost
ISIS. We use pear corer ana slicor e
prepare the appIes for drying. wife
) and two little girls did the work. epplee
. and wood being brought % the house
: for them.
4 "Soms Of The apples kept ysar and Z
,,half were - white and good - wheu
lfirst put up. No trouble 70 keep then
1--we years. We used about tablespo0n
/. OF sulphur 70 . half busheI. Whom dry,
J " put the fruit right into hour barrels,
Rland beaded it up tight. Some kept
! Dleightssn months ere e uice and fresh q
rlwhsn fret put up. They are better %
|cook than fresh fruit . they don't ~
: 'quIrs sugar. while fresh fruit does.
I'VE pack them hot, right from ths
i lltrave. II they stand open, the millol
n viii get into them. Turn them from hi
,.Isray Into the barrel, end kesp them per.
! s|SeclIy close. Just = soon - : barrel
: ! We lull, I headed them up.S-J. D. Do
rand, before Missouri Hort. Society.
a A fsw weeks ago The wife of Ns.
'.IBrashear, OF Lamar, Spencer county
. s'skipped OUT with about $1,000 o. be-
. shus6ends's money. Her husoand BE-
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