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establishments is about two thousand dollars ; but the company expected 

 to bring out a plan for smaller houses, which could be built for about 

 one thousand dollars each, but did not know as they would put it upon 

 the market, as the company wish to control the process and sale of the 

 fruit, until the price is established, and also to ])revent inferior fruit being 

 put upon the market by unskillful operators. 



The uniform price at which the company sold its dried (or " desic- 

 cated") apples is twenty cents per pound, in (juantity. The cores and 

 skins are used for making jelly. 



Mr. Wier said he had tried to organize a company to build and 

 equip an Alden fruit house. b\it failing in it had succeeded in getting 

 up a company and building and operating a dry-house upon the plan of 

 Smith's Baltimore house, which was less expensive and he thought made 

 about as good fruit; yet as cheap as fruit has been the past season it did 

 not pay expenses, and the company had closed out the business. He 

 did not believe that any factory for drying fruit had paid expenses. 



Dr. Hooton exhibited a sample of fruit dried in a dry-house which 

 he had built at a cost of two hundred and fifty dollars. He could dry 

 sixty bushels of apples in ten hours at an expense of two cents per pound. 

 (?). He thought his dried apples as good as anybody's. 



Mr. Huggins also said he had built a dry-house for twenty-five 

 dollars, which answered his purpose and he thought a good investment. 

 He dries his fruit in ten hours, with an ordinary furnace, can i)ut in twenty- 

 five bushels green fruit at once. He thought the expensive establish- 

 ments were beyond the reach of most of us. He sold his dried apples 

 for nine cents per pound, yet a St. Louis buyer assured him that they so 

 nearly resembled the Alden fruit that he could mi\ them witli the Alden 

 and there would be no cause for complaint by those who bought all 

 as Alden fruit. 



Mr. Dl'nlap called attention to the propriety of taking measures 



to secure the sale of green fruits by weight, and read a resolution 



upon the subject, which he thought it would be proper for the Society to, 



pass, viz : 



SELLING FRUIT BY WEIGHT. 



Whfre.AS — The selling of all farm, orchard, and garden products by weight is the 

 most just and fair to both seller and consumer, therefore 



Resolved, That the Boards of Trade in the cities of Chicago and .St. Louis be 

 requested to adopt a rule for their members to sell all farm, orchard, and garden pro- 

 ducts by weight ; the time for inaugurating this change to be the firs^l day of January 

 next. 



