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The grower who can make his crates of berries, when 

 opened, look better than others will always receive good 

 prices. If he tops off poor fruit with large berries, he will 

 scarcely find a market eventuall3\ If he always takes 

 pains to make his packages appear attractive, his fruit will 

 soon be in much demand and spoken for in advance. I 

 have thought that a cool place to bring your fruit, 

 where the temperature would not reach too low a degree of 

 cold, free from a current of wind, would be a great help to 

 keep our fruits in a better condition. 



After due care has been exercised in the picking and pack- 

 ing of them in the best manner, we are now under the 

 necessity of meeting one great and important subject: The 

 problem of how we can get our express company to more 

 fully realize that the fruit we grow is not calculated to 

 stand all the smashing and ill usage which our fruits are 

 subjected to by their agents, who, as a general rule, are, in 

 their own estimation, of such a great importance that they 

 can't be approached with any degree of assurance that we 

 shall receive a civil answer. We hope the day may not be 

 far distant when, by the cooperation of the many fruit 

 growers throughout the state, we may be able to impress 

 upon these great monopolies that it is our due that we are 

 granted every protection possible in the handling of our 

 fruits; and, also, lower rates. The market is amply large 

 enough for all our fruits, if our express companies would 

 not ask such exhorbitant rates, which are higher from my 

 own place to Green Bay than from Chicago to Green Bay. 

 Onfe of the chief problems for our fraternity to solve, is how 

 to distribute our products more perfectly and economically 

 to reach wider markets. Tlie^ is as yet no absolute over- 

 production of good fruits. There are many disagreeable 

 things to contend with, even after all the care which we 

 have bestowed upon our fruits. Our markets are, and 

 always will be, opened for choice fruits. Let us raise them. 



On motion of Mr. Periam, Prof. McGinnis and Mr. Green- 

 man were elected honory members of the society. 

 Convention adjourned sine die. 



