15th, picked apples. Apples thin this year.
Jesse does not explain why the apples were thin in 1900. There was a problem with bitter rot throughout Missouri and it caused steep losses as noted by the August, 1902 edition of Fruit Trade Journal and Produce Record, but that might not be the cause. Aside from this, as one reads the last few weeks of Jesse’s entries, all he does at this time is pick apples and make apple cider. When he comments on the apples being thin after so many weeks of apple picking, it comes across as funny.
