What To Do With Surplus Apples

By Jonathan Talcott. The prospect of a large erop of apples this year in many sections of the country should induce all producers of the erop to make preparations in season to dispose of whateversurplae may be had the coming fall to the best advantage. There are various ways of disposing of apples, some of which may be best for some localities, others for other localities. Every grower must decide for himself what is best for him to do, in the circumstances in which he is placed. There can hardly be a better way, under favorable circumstances, than the practice of packing all the choicest fruit in barrels and selling it to dealers in the immediate locality where sucn surplus is grown. Still, in the most favorable seasons, there will be a great mauy that are not üt for marketing in this way, and the question arises, what is the best disposition to be made of such inferior fruit? These inferior specimens cannot be used for evaporating, if a flrst-class quality of goods is desired for the market. Inferior apples cannot make as good a quality of evaporated fruit as the best selected fruit would do; henee, if so used, an inferior grade must be expected that will disappoint purchasers who procure them for family use. Where there are conveniences at hand, this second quality of apples can be made into eider, and then manufactured into vinegar that, if not the best, is certainly equal to the best.vinegar made for family use. Probably there is no way in which more proflt can be had from an orchard of apples than by manufacturing them into tirst-class vinegar. Where such a disposition of apples cannot be easily made, there is still another way in which they can generally be used to a very good advantage, namely, the feeding of them to farm stock, and especially the culis that are unüc for market purposes. Many farmers think highly oï them for this puipose, while others do not take the trouble to test their merit, but think them injurious to stock from the fact that when cattle or horses break jinto the orchard before the erop is gathered, they will eat so many that fatal consequences frequeatly ensue. Many farmers have found by careful experiment in feeding applea to farm stock, and particularly to milch cows, that there is profit in so doing. I have myself pretty thoroughly tested the feeding of to both cattle and horses, and have found them valuablefor that purpose. After years of experiment, I prefer to feed a mixture of corn and oatmeal and wheat shorts with the apples, beginning a light ration of apples, say four quarts at a feeding, with two quart3 of the meal mixture fed at the same time once or twice a day, according to the supply of apples. If desired, this ration may be increased when fed toa full-grown animal, and with special advantage in the case of a fatening animal or a cow-giving milk. When fed to horses we usually feed them at night in connection with their other food. We usually feed our horses cut feed and meal, and an additijn of four quarts of apples are particularly relished by any horse accustotned to such a daily ration. At least it has been so with our teams the past few years. Since they have been so fed they have done well.