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son people use them for tjiltle. Tliev want a sniall pncknae — a take liome- 

 withyoii jtackaiie that they can lakf home and put in the celhii- tor 

 slicing and eating. So we use one that will retail for 50 or HO cents. 

 Later on we use a seven eighths basket and jtut on a bushel l>y weight. 

 We weigh them np and gnai-anlce full wcigiit. but it is only a seven 

 eighths basket. Tlien we use a netting o\er tiieni and that holds llieni 

 on. In reference to the jiackage ([uestion, 1 feel that conditions \ary 

 so much we may not all be able to use the same, but it matters not 

 whether we are harvesting and marketing our summer fruit or our 

 peaches or ]»ears or plums, 1 am satistie<l it does not pay us to use an old, 

 unsightly-looking package. Let us use a clean, neat, tight package that 

 will bring us customers and will keep them. Now, friends. T tliiid< 1 

 have covered this ground in a scattering way, and if any of you wish to 

 ask a question, T will be glad to answer them. 



A Member: In packing peaches in the Vh baskets do you use covers? 



Mr. Farnsw(»rth : Just nc^tting, and tuck it along under the rim of 

 the basket. We have a large local tirade there. People for seventeen 

 miles distant and machine after machine comes ont f»f the city biing- 

 ing jieople to see the orchards, taking home apjiles or ])eaches as the 

 case may be; we geneially have them setting aiound in ]>acking house. 

 It doesn't pay in dollai-s and cents to treat a custonu'r so yon have to 

 get away from his ueighb<»rliood before you get a new one. 



A Member: ^^'llat objections have you to the sack in [licking ap]»les? 



Mr. Fai'usAvordi : The pickeis in clinddug about will bi'uise them more 

 or less, and if they climb into tlu' trees, which we do not allow until 

 it is necessary as it damages a tree, with the baskets they are not going 

 to damage them. 



Mr. Sniytlie: What have y<»ur ]ieaches avei-agod you in the last five 

 years. 



Mr. FarnsAvorth : T could not answer. 



Mr. Smythe : The reason T asked the question is on account of your 

 local market. Most of the fruit in (Ji'and IJapids is sold on the o]»en 

 market. 



Mr. Farnsworth : This year they run from ILTo to |2.50; some |:5.00— 

 these were the Kalamazoo and I'lbertas. I thitdc jiossibly on an average 

 of f2.00 or $2. 25. Some of the smaller varieties sold at 11.75. 



Mr. Case: I think that very few of us here ar(» as nicely situated in 

 regard to marketing the products of oui- fruit farms as Mr. Farns- 

 worth. As I understand it, the trolley people let him have a car that 

 he loads up every night and sends out. He sells jiractically all of his 

 fruits by telephone. This car goes through some of the smaller vil- 

 lages, and they meet it and take what they want. Finally this car runs 

 into Lima, wliere the balance is sold the next moiiiing, and the car 

 comes back, and they use this car over and over again. We are not 

 situated like that. We have to go to New York and TMiiladeljihia and 

 even Springfield and Worcester, and we have to go in carloads; our 

 fruit must be coo1(m1 and it must be underri]>e. We could not pick 

 peaches as he does. 



Mr. Fralick: I would like to know how to prepare this Haiit under 

 different conditions. In regard to help, etc. 



Mr. Farnsworth: The help question is one that is troubling all of 

 us. There are a good many other ways of handling your crops to good ad- 

 vantage, even if you are not situated as we are. Not all the fruit 

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