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marketing of fruit. We all make mistakes, but some do not try to rectify 

 their mistakes when it comes to prepare fruit for market. 



It will always pay to pack it properly and send to market for what it is 

 worth. Many fruitgrowers pack their fruit to their own ruin by putting 

 in poor fruit, thinking it will not be noticed, and care little how they put 

 their fruit upon the market. I think this is working more injury to fruit- 

 growing than any one thing. 



Mr. Lannin: I remember, in my own experience, some fruit goes tO' 

 Chicago that we would not care to own. A few years ago I had thirty 

 acres of peaches and I had some fine fruit, among it some Susquehannas„ 

 Three of them would fill the bottom of a peck basket, and I was so afraid 

 it would harm the large ones by pressure that I put in a few small ones ta 

 fill up and preserve the others. I shipped to Mr. Burnett and they were 

 sent back. It is easier to say amen in a prayer-meeting than to pack only 

 our best fruit. We send inferior fruit, but I have found it does not pay„ 

 Although we may send more of it we do not get so much money for it. 

 Let us be honest in sending the full measure. The people of Chicago can 

 not be fooled any longer, so let us be honest. 



J. C. Gould : Some one has remarked that a small portion of the fruit- 

 growers belong to our societies, and how to reach them is the question.. 

 Fruitgrowers always like to tell when they have a good thing, that their 

 neighbors may rejoice with them. 



E. C. Reid: It is an error to assume, as some of the speakers have,, 

 that men stay away from these meetings because they can learn of them 

 through the papers. My experience is that those who do not go to meet- 

 ings do not take the papers and do not learn the best ways and modes of 

 growing and handling fruit. They are unprogressive in both respects. 



A. H. Beowjn : Many of the fruitgrowers in my vicinity are Dutch and 

 Irish and do not go to our meetings and do not take the papers. How are 

 we going to reach them? We can not deceive the people of Chicago any 

 longer. They call it " over the lake stuff," Michigan apples. " How do 

 you know they are Michigan apples?" "Why, they are small barrels." 

 We must reach them by our societies. If the people of Chicago will 

 enforce their ordinances and compel the shippers to send honest fruit 

 honestly packed, then we shall have better prices. 



R. MoREiLL: All I know about Indiana law is that one of the commis- 

 sion men in Chicago told me " Our orders from Indiana dealers are being 

 countermanded, for they have a new law compelling the people of that 

 state to use full packages." Michigan should pass a similar law to protect 

 us against ourselves. I do not need it. If I see a dollar and a half dollar 

 before me, I do not not need an enactment for me to take the dollar. 



A. Hamilton: I fully indorse what Mr. Moeeill has said. I would 

 be glad to see our people use full measures, and if they do not pack hon- 

 estly they should be made to. But I deny the assertion that fruitgrowers. 

 are dishonest. I do not like to hear it charged against them. Not a word 

 has been said about the commission men of Chicago, and reports of this 

 meeting would show that the shippers are charged with all the dishonesty 

 and the commission men none, and I don't believe it. 



W. A. Brown: We all know that there are dishonest practices on both 

 sides. Is there not some way to show that dishonest practices are a detri- 

 ment, not only to themselves but to all others? I think we should have 

 a union or combination that shall have a brand on the fruit, that will be a 

 fi'uaranty of its quality. If we ever have fair, honest dealing we must 



