FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 107 



Mr. Bush: I did not make a positive statenicut in regard to the 

 freight rates — the positive statement was that the southern roads gave 

 a much better service. They will deliver a car of peaches regularly 

 in one-half the time that the northern roads will do it. 



But I must go. I would like once more to express to you people the 

 satisfaction that I have felt in being here and meeting you. I shall 

 take away with me the memory of a \ery pleasant time — the memory of 

 meeting some earnest, Avhole-souled men and some charming women, but 

 I want to suggest to you that you turn your faces toward the morning 

 light, hitch your wagons to a star, and work together trying to accom- 

 plish something for the business that we are all interested in. I shall 

 be glad to welcome you, each and every one, at my home at Morton, 

 and I hope you will all come sometime, but please do not all come at 

 once. Good bye. (Applause.) 



PACKING AND MARKETING APPLES. 



H. M. DUNLAT^ SAVOY, ILL. 



The growing of a{»ples is one i)roblem. The marketing is another. 

 The two are intimately related but entireh' different. It is essential 

 in obtaining the best results to first grow good apples for the market. 

 This like the darkey's receipt for rabbit soup, comes first. The darkey 

 says first "kotch your rabbit." 



Many a grower who understands fairly well how to i)roduce good 

 fruit is lost when it comes to selling it to his own advantage. It is 

 often done to the advantage of the l)uyer. Like inventors the apple 

 grower usually needs assistance in selling what he has produced. The 

 grower who connects up with the best methods in this particular gets 

 best results. 



No one can long be successful whose methods are not careful and 

 honest in the packing of apples. 



EQUIPMENT FOR HARVESTING THE APPLE CROP. 



There are some who insist that the only way to pick apples is to use 

 a basket lined with cloth. These insist that the use of the basket in 

 ])icking is the most careful method and that the bruising of the apples 

 is reduced to a minimum. I have, however, seen apples handled very 

 roughly into baskets. The picker hangs the basket on the tree, on the 

 ladder rung, or sets it on the ground and then proceeds to shoot the 

 apples into the basket from distances of one foot to -six or eight feet 

 away. 



The bottomless ] ticking sack with broad straps across the shoulders 

 has come into use within the past few years in many commercial 

 orchards. My experience is that either the basket qr sack is good if 

 rightly handled and either may be objectionable if care is not exer- 

 cised. 



