The New York herald., 1922-09-24

becus you're q friend q mine. at eight
dollars the barrel f. O. b. Bascom's Bridge,
an you pay the freight which is seventy
nine cents
God of Liberty" he says. IAN / paid
quarter yistiddy fer an Oregon Spitzen-
berg that didn't have no taste to it at all
You're sold out"
He pulled card out of his pocket an
wrote on it: The bearer is o. XIV. z
Norton"
Go right into every bank ye see," he
says, IAN show the cashier one apple an
that card You kin start back home to-
night. an fer heavens sake send me my
two barrels first / wouldn't trade 'em
fer Hicks's fruit store in Fifth avenue"
win, says bankers kin buy tanger-
ines an African apricotss If my legs holds
out I'm gonta git these apples to folks
that can't"
He got up an looked at me fer about a
minute. There was the old expression in
his face that he used to have when he was
boy. He shook my hand, and put his arm
over my shoulder an says: God bless your
kindly OF soul. Josh. I'm afeard you'll
never git the corporation viewpoint, but
l guess you amt fur wrong at that"
An | went out / sold my crop, an my
neighbor's, an every apple went straight
into somebody's home-bankers barred
The last two barls was sold to a Eye Italian
bootblack with six kids, an he most went
crazy with joy
Sizing Up the Price Difference.
Now, Mister City Man, all this means
somethin'. In barl of apples they's ls7
pounds. At two pounds fer a quarter at
that time folks-yes. your wife among
the rest-was payin' $40 the bar'L. fer
cider apples, an at three pounds fer
quarter she was payin' fourteen a barl
fer hog feed. An to make a pie she had
to cut away half of 'em For good eatin'
apples she was payin' ten to fifteen cents
apiece. Now in bar'l there's from $50 to
around 400 apples, accordin' to size. Fig
ger fer yourself / was sellin' fancy hand
picked Baldwins. sound as a nut an the
best keepers in the world, fer two cents
apiece or less-twelve pounds fer quarter
instid of two. An 1 was maxim a decent
profit on my business
In the end of November "a Grade.
State apples was sellin' in Barclay street
for $3.50 bar'l, but that was to the COM
mission men. The prices uptown. East
Side, West Side. never fiickered all winter
till along in the spring when the leavin's
in the warehouses had to be cleaned out
Now just to finish tn argument: When
the commission men bought the first grade
apples that was consigned to him. at $3.50
bar'l, which he did. he sent back a return
to the fool farmer that shipped 'em, shown
freight debit of seventy-nine cents car
tage twenty five. commission ten per cent.
or quarter of a dollar more-leavin' the
farmer balance of s1.29 Out of that
the farmer had TO pay at that time OF
year $1.75 for his bar'l. forty cents for
pickin'. forty more for packin' an twenty
five more for haulin' to the station. That
left him a cash loss of s1.61. Back of
that he had his years work, an a lot of
hired work at high prices if he hired-the
prunin' of his trees, the plowin' an har-
rowin' of his orchard, fertilizin'. sprayin'
which has to be done at least twice a sea-
son, and upkeep an cost of sprayin' ma
terials, which was hghern' hay barn that
year. to add to the deficit. His own labor
was supposed to be paid fer out of the
profits"
You don't believe all this? You'll ask
how he KEEP out of the Sheriff's clutches.
This is how: Simply becus he made his wife
that oughta been keepin' the house, an his
children that oughta ben in school, git out
n pick an pack apples like a hired man,
an he didn't have to pay 'em. An that's