36 STATE UORTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Pearsall : My practice has been to face my barrel with medium apples, 

 not the largest nor smallest, sometimes ^vith two and again with only one 

 layer. I pick the apples in a handled basket that will easily slip into the bar- 

 rel and turn over. Then the barrel can be filled without bruising the fruit. 

 I try to put even sizes iu the different barrels and mark accordingly. My 

 name and full address are placed on the head of each barrel. 



Mr. Healy explained how a man may acquire a reputation by honest pack- 

 ing and how easily he may lose it by having his packages overhauled in the 

 great markets and inferior fruit placed under his brand. The only way is to 

 follo-w your fruit pretty closely. 



Mr. Steere : It behooves us to learn to pack honestly and well, for it will not 

 belong before the foreign demand for our apples will be something enormous. 



Mr. Woodward: We pack apples egregiously in New York, and from what 

 you say I judge you don't pack much better in Michigan. Now there is cer- 

 tainly money in doing this business honestly and well as truly as any other. 

 The day is at hand when the money on fruit will depend upon honest packing. 



Mr. Stowell : Two car loads of apples were sent from here to Sweden last 

 year. We do not want to make mistakes in packing when we seek a market 

 abroad. 



Mr. Gibson : I am a fruit packer and want to put A No. 1 apples on the 

 market ; but when I do a large business and buy apples in large quantity, 

 putting packers in the orchard with instructions, I find oftentimes that a good 

 dinner at the farmer's table and a little of the "0, be joyful," between meals, 

 have more influence than my instructions, and the result is that a great many 

 apples go into the barrels that ought to go into the hogs. I wish farmers 

 would pack their own apples, put on them a guaranty, and sell to the dealer 

 who will pay the highest price. 



Mr. Moore : I never should do this; but the rather sell the fruit in the 

 orchard outright to the man who would give the best bargain, and would sim- 

 ply guarantee the packer that his men would get no whisky at my house. 



Mr. Dayton : I am also a dealer and would much prefer that the farmer 

 pack his own apples. They will run better than if I hire them packed myself. 



Mr. Peirson : The sentiment about Hudson is that the packer will put more 

 apples into barrels from the same orchard than the owner of the orchard 

 would dare to do, hence the orchardists prefer the packers should do the work 

 and take the responsibility. 



Porter Beal : There seems to be several grades of honesty. I find the 

 same grade of men who yesterday or this forenoon advocated ''enlivening" 

 the packages by means of colored netting, this afternoon urging that there 

 be greater honesty in packing. It seems that a grade of honesty that is good 

 for one set may be pretty tough for anotlier. 



Mr. Tracy explained that the netting Avould only heighten the color already 

 there, but would not hide deformities. It is not deceitful for a man to wear 

 such clothes as will well set off his person. 



The next subject was 



THE KNIFE, WHEN AND WHERE TO USE IT. 



Upon which President Lyon remarked at some length, illustrating his 

 points with blackboard and crayon. The following only catches at the points 

 he made : 



Nurserymen are compelled by the low price of trees to grow them too closely 



