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any trouble in selling, having sold to one party alone for more than 

 thirty yeais. It costs something to take pains in the paekino- of 

 fruit, but carelessness or indifference will cost you more. When 

 once a dealer finds that you have taken pains in packing and that 

 you have put up your fruit honestly you will have no further trouble. 

 In closing, allow me to say that no one can learn all about the fruit 

 business in one vear ; it will take a life-time to learn manv thino-* 

 essential to success, and then there will be something more to learn. 

 But to him who perseveres all knowledge will gradually be unfolded, 

 and with knowledge will come pleasure, if not complete happiness.. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. SwEETSER. I would like to ask Mr. Atherton if he would 

 recommend setting barrels of apples on the head, in preference to 

 laying them on the bilge? 



Mr. Atherton. My practice, after barrelling, is to put the bar- 

 rels on the bilge, and keep them out of the cellar until the weather 

 becomes quite cold. 



Mr. Mekrill. I would like to understand if Mr. Atherton thinks 

 that the barrelling of apples is a better practice than storing them in 

 bulk. We all know that it is even temperature that keeps fruit in 

 the best condition. He says in his cellar they keep well in barrels^ 

 but had thev been stored in bulk I think thev w^ould have come out 

 in just as good condition. Cold storage is good, but I don't agree 

 with him in barrelling tlie fruit. In buying and barrelling apples 

 for market, I have found the best apples in large lots in cool cellars. 

 I buy from lots in large bins in preference to small lots, as my expe- 

 rience is that I get better apples 



Mr. Atherton. Did I understand that you wished me to give ray 

 opinion as to whether it was better to st)re in barrels than in bulk? 



Mr. ]Meiuiill. I presume you intended to give it as your opinion. 



Mr. Atherton. I don't pretend to give any opinion. 1 .dimply 

 give my experience. 



Mr. Briggs. I presume that Mr. Atherton represented his expe- 

 rience. 



Mr. Merrill. I understand he is experimenting. He has apples 

 stored both in barrels and in bulk. Now, if he has them stored 

 both ways, and they come out in better condition in the barrels, I ad- 

 mit that I am wrong. 



