Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1876 — A Good Way to Keep Apples One Year. [ARTICLE]

A Good Way to Keep Apples One Year.

■ Years ago we always kept apples In exeellent condition daring the entire year. At a recent agrioaltnral convention in Utica, N.Y., a quantity of fair apples were exhibited which were plump, fresh and of good flavor, quite as good aa the sane kind of apples are ordinarily on the approach of spring. 71m apples had been put up in refuse boxes the year previous, and ia the following manner: A layer of dry sawdust was sprinkled at tbe hottoB) of die box, and then a foyer of apples placed in so that they do not touch each other. Upon this was placed s layer of sawdust, and soon until the box was filed. The boxes, after being packed in this way, were placed on tbe wall'm the celar, up from the ground, where they kept perfectly, mttaining their freshness and flavor Jfotil brought oat, — W. T. Herald: Tbe Centennial Exhibition will Jk*U month,