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cannot afford to invest the amount of money necessary to purchase a 

 barrel. 



In packing apples in boxes, they should be carefully selected as to 

 uniformity of size and packed in tiers ; not simply faced and then put in 

 as you do in a barrel. It is the writer's opinion that boxed apples will 

 keep better than barreled apples, for the reason that there is less pressure 

 on the individual apples ; they are handled more carefully, and the cold 

 penetrates more quickly to the center of the package. 



The question of wrapping apples for cold storage is one that I would 

 like to take up with you ; but do not feel justified in doing so at this 

 time, as experiments along this line have not been conducted far enough 

 for me to make any positive statements as to the increased cost of such 

 package as compared with the market value, difference in shrinkage, any 

 many other points ; but if I had some fruit of fancy sorts, such as Wine- 

 saps, Jonathans, Grimes Golden, Huntsman, etc., that were well colored, 

 large perfect fruit, I would pack them in boxes, wrap each apple first 

 with tissue paper and then with parchment paper. I trust, however, an- 

 other year to be able to give some very complete results along this line, 

 as the government is making exhaustive experiments in our cold storage. 



I trust I have at least stated some one fact that will be of value 

 to some one person, and realize that many will differ from me regard- 

 ing some of the statements. 



QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 



Question : Will the stripping oft" the leaves from young nursery 

 stock taken up^ in autumn injure or weaken them in any. way? 



]\Ir. Augustine: Not when the stock is thoroughly ripe, but it will 

 injure it unless the stock is thoroughly matured. 



Quetsion : Are not thousands of dollars lost annually by planting 

 fruit trees dug in the autumn and stored or piled up in store houses and 

 ■delivered in the spring? 



President Murray : As there seems to be no one to answer that 

 question, I want to say that in conversation with one of the leading nur- 

 serymen of the State of Missouri, who came back from the National 

 Nurserymen's Convention, that he reported to me that it was a conceded 

 fact that every week or month that the young nursery stock was out 

 of the ground and the roots stored away in these storage houses, they 

 deteriorated quite a little in vitality, and that they didn't start out with 

 the vigor of well planted trees. 



Quetsion : Do 3'ou think they would deteriorate if the}^ were 

 healed in the ground properly, out of doors, I mean? 



