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No one yet knows which the best kind is. There are several 

 kinds in the hall. The box which I now show you is one to 

 which considerable interest attaches. You see upon the box 

 there what it contained when it came into our possession. It 

 was a box of Oregon Spitzenburg, 



Now as to how these apples w^ere put up, you see these pieces 

 of blue cardboard in my hand. In the bottom of the box was one 

 of these pieces of blue cardboard. Each apple was wrapped in 

 white paper. There were four rows as I remember it of apples 

 in each layer. Then after the first layer was in, another piece 

 of blue cardboard went in, and so on through the box, and at 

 the top went one of these sheets of cardboard laid over the 

 whole. That was the shape we got that box in, and that is the 

 Oregon style of apple box, and I think it is about the same size 

 as most of the apple boxes from the Pacific states that are found 

 in our Eastern markets. 



In the back part of the hall are several boxes to which I wish 

 to call attention. There are several boxes there from the Wells, 

 Higman Company of St. Joseph, ^lichigan. We found quite a lot 

 of those things in Boston at the meeting of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society, and I thought it was an entirely proper thing for 

 the fruit growers of ^Nlaine to have an opportunity of examining 

 them. The largest ^lichigan box manufactured by this con- 

 cern is the one with the small red apples in. It contains a bushel. 

 I won't trouble to give the dimensions of these boxes because 

 you can see them there for yourselves. Those sell according to 

 the price list which I have in my hand at $io per hundred there. 

 It is a hardwood box. There is another box there in which the 

 Northern Spies are packed. That also is a bushel box. The 

 price of that box is $7 per 100 on the cars, where they are manu- 

 factured. There are also some smaller boxes. One of them is a 

 half bushel box. I don't recall exactly what the price is. Mr. 

 Nowell in Boston called my attention especially to some baskets 

 that came from this same concern that were on exhibition there, 

 and so w^hen I sent my letter to them I requested them to send 

 me also some of those baskets. The bushel baskets are popular 

 for the selling of peaches and they are also using them very 

 largely in Michigan this year for the marketing of apples. A 

 letter under date of October 22 from these manufacturers says : 

 ^'Barrels are worth fortv cents each here and there are not 



