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Mr. Keach: No trouble at all for you to arrange for cold storage. I 

 do not know how they will arrange exhibit at St. Louis. At the Paris 

 Exposition they had a cold storage room fitted up on the Exposition 

 grounds, and no doubt the same thing will be followed in St. Louis. In 

 selecting apples for the display at St. Louis Exposition you should be 

 careful to get them there in good condition. Of course they should be 

 carefully handled. If necessary, send them by express at greater ex- 

 pense; they should be got there in good condition. The package in which 

 they are displayed should be made as attractive as possible, use various 

 sized packages. There is in common use a California bushel box. With 

 highly colored fruit, the bushel box makes a' pretty show, and lying out 

 one side the contents show to good advantage, but in making your dis- 

 play, you should be very careful as to both your package and your pack- 

 ing, and have them as attractive as possible. 



Mr. : Would you advise putting Wealthy in cold storage for 



Christmas? 



Mr. Keach: No; not for Christmas trade. It is not necessary. 

 Wealthj' is a good eating apple, and matures at a time when there are 

 plenty of soft apples, and these early varieties placed in cold storage can 

 be taken out and put on the market in advance of winter apples. Such 

 varieties as Ben Davis, Winesap, and varieties of that kind should not 

 be considered as on the market before .January or February. We are 

 marketing Ben Davis now, ourselves, but of quality we have not much 

 regard for. The bulk of my apples this year came from Kansas, and I 

 paid big prices for them and paid high rate of freight, 60 cents per barrel, 

 to get them in here, but wanted quality. As to the question on Wealthy 

 — the Wealthy is a good cold storage apple, and its time for marketing 

 is in advance of others, about Thanksgiving. 



Mr. Little: Does the Keiffer pear keep as successfully in cold stor- 

 age as apples, and how does it handle after it comes out? Is it liable to 

 decay? 



Mr. Keach: Dealers differ very much as to the Keiffer pear. I have 

 but little regard for the Keiffer pear for cold storage. For some reason 

 it seems to turn brown, and the results I have had with Keiffer pears 

 in cold storage have not been very satisfactory. There has been times 

 when the market was in such a condition that I could not dispose of 

 them. Put them in cold storage to prolong life, but results are not satis- 

 factory. They seem to discolor and turn brown. 



Mr. Kingsbury: Mr. Keach would be a very valuable member of our 

 Society, and I move that he 1)0 made an honorary member of our Society. 

 Personally, I feel very grateful to Mr. Keach for this very practical talk 

 along the line we are interested in, and just what we needed at this time. 



