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color. When they do this it cuts down the profit. This is true in Wash- 

 ington, but here the soil has sufficient potash to color nicely. We can 

 grow fine apples with very little expense. 



Mr. Swaim: I thought you said you would prefer boxes to barrels in 

 some cases. 



Mr. Zion: In some cases, yes; in early, fancy fruit. 



President Stevens: I have observed that a number of fruit growers 

 in our State are shipping directly to the consumer from the orchard. 

 Have you had any experience along that line? 



Mr. Zion: Not very much. My crop is too large to handle that way. 

 One thing I have noticed and that is the groceryman charges the con- 

 sumer about 40 per cent, profit and frequently sells culls at the price of 

 fancy fruit. We should educate the consumer and when the groceryman 

 insists on a high price for liis fruit they should insist on a high priced 

 fruit. They should demand good apples. There is where the trouble 

 comes in. We must reach the consumer. This can be done by educating 

 the consumer to demand good apples. I just wish you could see the apples 

 that were shipped from New York in here. It is terrible. 



Mr. Williams: What does it cost a month to put apples in cold 

 storage ? 



Ml'. Zion: Ten cents a month or thirty-five cents a season per barrel. 

 They will not charge you any extra for six weeks over season-time, but if 

 you do not tell them when you put them in, how long you expect them 

 to stay, they will likely charge you for the season, because they do not 

 like to be moving them around. 



Mr. Hazelett: I would object to hauling the apples in baskets to the 

 packing house. I think that the jostling in the baskets would bruise 

 them. Of course such apples as the Ben Davis it would not hurt, but I 

 should not like for a Yellow Transparent to be treated in that way. 



Mr. Zion: I have not suffered any inconvenience. I get my apples to 

 cold storage just as quickly as possible, and when we pack in the packing 

 house we will sometimes w'ork until ten or eleven o'clock at night to get 

 them off and sent to the express station, and by the next day they are in 

 cold storage. When we worked in the orchard we could not do this 

 way. I have heard it said that the Ben Davis scalds pretty badly in cold 

 storage, but I think this is caused by the apple not being gathered at the 

 proper time. 



Mr. Simpson: What kind of picking tables do you useV 



