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ripe they are generally purchased by grocerymen or fruit peddlers who 

 purchase enough to talie care of their wants for that one time, and of 

 course will not keep long after coming out of cold storage. The bulk 

 of Bartlett pears in this country are raised in New York State. They are 

 packed early; as soon as the pear has its gi-owth, quickly placed in cold 

 storage in New York State, for instance, pears picked today are hauled 

 in this evening, shipped tomorrow, and next day are in cold storage 

 plants near by, and held in cold storage until a market presents itself; 

 then if they are to be shipped west, we frequently have them here loaded 

 in refrigerator cars, arrive here in perfect condition, and after they arrive 

 here, if we find it necessary to try to prolong the life, we take them out 

 of the car and put them in cold storage again, but there is no necessity 

 for these goods being exposed to the weather only in very limited quan- 

 tities. 



Professor Beach: This subject has been covered so well and so tBor- 

 oughly I consider it good fortune for me to have the privilege of hearing 

 this valuable address and discussion on this point. It is decidedly im- 

 portant that we understand the best methods of getting money back for 

 a crop after we have grown it. It is all right to understand cultivation, 

 methods of orchard management, and spraying, in order to raise good 

 fruit, but then some men fail after they raise good fruit— fail in getting 

 proper returns. The fact is that if you are going to put apples in cold 

 storage at all, they want to be put in right from the tree. In some apple 

 gi'owing sections of New York, some cold storage people declared a year 

 ago they would not accept them in barr&ls lying around, in farmers' wood- 

 houses or cellars; their experience had been, it would not pay, and they 

 had found by experience that in some sections of the country it is de- 

 sirable to get apples from the tree into cold storage immediately. The 

 other idea was, the work of this Society may do in helping select list 

 of varieties for planting which are good cold storage fruits. There is a 

 difference as to how well they handle in cold storage; some varieties of 

 apples are liable to scald in cold storage— a very important matter. If 

 the coming methods are to be cold storage and cultivation of leading 

 varieties, it is very important that we select those varieties which are 

 handled well in cold storage. 



