WINTER MEETING, 1882. 11 



Secretary Garfield : I -would like to inquire of Mr. Scott what cultivator he 

 likes best for shallow culture? 



E. II. Scott, Ann Arbor: I have always used the ordinary five-tooth culti- 

 vator, but I am favorably impressed with the spring toothed implement and 

 am* going to try one. 



Mr. Potter : The spring-tooth harrow I like very much as used with a team 

 in the field, but as a single cultivator my experience has not been favorable 

 to it. 



J. S. Woodward, Lockport: I like the ordinary five-tooth cultivator, but 

 the teeth should be kept sharp. Every cultivator should have a double set of 

 teeth, so that wlicu one set gets dulled another sharp set can take their place. 

 I believe in flat culture everywhere, and these implements are suited to it. 



Mr. Dorr : I like the spring-tooth cultivator for small fruits, but we must 

 not expect too much of this implement ; it will not mow a yard or pull stumps, 

 but when used for what it was intended it does the best of work. 



Mr. Scott: I have a circular cutter that I attach to a small plow which cuts 

 off the runners nicely in strawberry beds. I turn the furrows away from the 

 rows, then put in my cultivator, producing flat culture. 



FEUIT PACKAGES 



was the next topic announced, upon which Mr. A. D. Healy of South Haven 

 remarked, by way of opening : 



This subject interests us on the lake shore, where we have all kinds and 

 sizes. My view is, let a quart package hold a full quart ; let a peck hold eight 

 full quarts ; don't try to cheat, but be honest and in the end it will pay hand- 

 somely. Above all things do not go to your cooper and order him to make 

 your barrels one inch shorter or with an inch less bilge. Whatever the pro- 

 ducer gains, or seems to gain, is taken illegitimately out of the consumer. 

 Every packer of fruit should use a package upon which he is not afraid to put 

 liis name and address. A short package is not a good advertisement. There 

 is a heap of dishonesty in packages sent out of western Michigan. Some fac- 

 tories which make peach baskets, I understand, have no forms upon which to 

 make full sizes because there is so slight a demand for them. I wish to enter 

 my severest protest against such frauds. 



Clean packages, with fine netting placed over the fruit to make it attractive, 

 sell the best in the market. 



Professor Beal : Firmness is a good quality in a package for soft fruit. I 

 I have noticed a great many grapes shipped in ordinary market baskets. The 

 fruit soon becomes bruised and injured. A stiff bottom would much improve 

 the package. 



Mr. Healy : I like the round, stiff packages best for grapes. 



W. W. Tracy, Detroit: In our market the handle baskets are liked best. 

 I suppose habit and fashion have a good deal to do with this. 



Mr. Potter : I like the handle boxes well for grapes, and they are used a 

 good deal with us. 



Mr. Tracy: The point made by Mr. Healy as to color of netting is a good 

 one. By giving attention to complimentary colors fruit may be given a more 

 attractive appearance. To illustrate, a florist in Detroit placed a white begonia 

 upon a bracket in a church which was finished in a bluish tint; the begonia 

 appeared to be an orange color, and I took it to be such until disabused of the 

 notion by the owner of the plant. Now, by using about the fruit package a 



