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give a person a few Wolf River, not for eating but for cooking, and then
give him a Wealthy or something like that to eat--they will be looking
at the big Wolf River and eating the other and seem to be well satisfied
and always come back. Whenever we sell to the stores we always gauge our
prices so that the majority of their customers will take our fruit
before taking the shipped in fruit from Chicago. We find with grapes we
can charge about five cents a basket more than they retail the Michigan
grapes for.

[Illustration: View in eleven year old orchard of H. G. Street.]

For native plums we get more than they do for the Michigan fruit. We
have had quite a good many of the Burbank plums, but we cannot sell over
one-third as many as we do of the natives.

A Member: You don't ship them, so don't consider the packing?

Mr. Street: The only ones we ship are those ordered by people coming
there or by letter. If they want a bushel we pack them in a bushel box.
If they want three or six bushels then we pack them in barrels.

Mr. Anderson: Where are you located?

Mr. Street: Just south of the Wisconsin state line.

Mr. Anderson: I am located 100 miles west of here, and I shipped out 400
bushels of apples to the Dakotas last year direct.

Mr. Richardson: How many growers are there in your neighborhood growing
fruit commercially?

Mr. Street: I do not know of any who spray, cultivate and prune
according to the best methods within about 100 miles. We always make it
a point to give our customers good fruit, so that we are not afraid to
recommend it. Then there is another advantage. If they come right there,
and we have any seconds we can tell them just what they are, and if they
want them we can sell them for what they are worth, but if we are
putting them into a store, I prefer not to put in seconds.

Mr. Kochendorfer: I think that is the advantage of disposing on a public
market. You have a chance to sell the inferior goods without any coming
back.

Mr. Street: The main thing is to use improved methods and try to outdo
the other fellow. Cultivate a little more thoroughly, put in your cover
crop, not over-fertilize but all you possibly can; give the dormant
spray; spray before bloom very thoroughly and again after bloom; two
weeks after that again, about July 15th.

Mr. Richardson: How many apple trees have you?

Mr. Street: We now have ten acres in apples, but most of them are young,
ab