Keeping Apples

R P. Marsh, of Brandon, Vt, statea tbat he had, laai July, lihode Island Greeuings, Northern Spy and Spitzenhurgapples itéab aridjuicy and df good flavor. He says one mistake in regard to apples is p cking them before they avo thorouglil.y mtitured. "My tixperieuce," he suys, "in kweping apples for the past thirty yeui'8 i tsimply this. I have packcd ih?min buekwhaat hulls, whuat bran, dried sand and saw dut. I have alao kent thern oo shelvss, atid in barrels with no intermixture of other material. The latter I consider the best mothod for two reanons : let, Thoy keep as well or better; 2d, Tliey ara fiewher, more juicy, and, consequently, moro delicious i-ating. In ihe tutter part of last November, ) 863, ï took clean, dry flour'larrela, ana set them on pieccrt of scantling in mv eooleft and durkest callar roem. Á part of them I filled with app!os, and ndthing but upples. In part wf the burruis I placed very dry cwnhusks ut the bottora and siííen, iind thon filled wi:h apples. Atirulier porl'-on of the rarae vurinties of appfes 1 phicod in HÍnltí lavers on wnmlen fhelves in toe Burno rooii), In Folirnary and Mareh I examiaed the apples, and found those in bwirols, wilh husks rit tho bottom ind many ol' them decnyed and the rotted ones seemed 10 affoct all the rest for tliere wns a damp monld renchinir netirly to the top of the barrel, anc many of ihe appW onvereá with it. In tho bárrela without husks thore was ! mero trifle ff unnoimd fruit, while it dit not affect, (as in tho other b;trrels) the tastu of vvhat rcmuined sound. On the helves about the amo proportion de oayed a8 in tho barrels without hnsks but tho appleS in those barrel seomed a littlo fresher to eatthao any of the oth ers. "On the wnole, thpn, I consider al the mytery about keeping apples is, o havo thera oarefuilj pickcd withou bruiHing. quite late in the season ; kee] in a coi 1 phice, íiee trom f rost, untii the sweating process is conipleted ; then placed in a d'irk cool room m the eeiln in barrels aa described, open at the top or on suelves a& preferred. If tbere i any letterway, I havo not found it. - It ehould be borne in mind, tb at if' th heat lrom a furnace, or any other arti ficial heat in Ü;e cellar, comes in contac with the fruit, it is mire to injuro it." {" Novar bonst ot' ycmr good qua] tiés : your bad ooe muy ovcrbalaDo