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Mr. Williams: I thinli it will supersede the barrel. The barrel is 

 becoming very expensive, and the box has proven that it assists in the 

 sale. People will buy a box when you can't persuade them to take a 

 barrel. 



Mr. Swaim: Does the box have any advantage over the barrel in cold 

 storage? 



Mr. Williams: That is a question to come in later. I was on market 

 in Indianapolis the other day and I found five different sized boxes in 

 the same crate of peaches. I went to one stand and asked him what 

 he asked for a box. He rejilied, "Twenty cents." I asked another what 

 he asked for a box and he fold me "Fifteen cents." I bought this one for 

 fifteen cents, and then went to another fellow and asked him what he 

 charged, and he told me "Twentj' cents." I told him that I had just 

 bought one for fifteen cents, and he assured me that if they were the 

 same size he would give me his box of peaches, as he thought mine 

 was a smaller size than his. I thought they were the same, and pulled 

 the box out to see, and I found that he was right, for his box was the 

 largest, and that in the end it was the cheapest to buy the twenty-cent 

 box. You see, it is hard to discriminate betAveen the sizes. The Horti- 

 cultural Society should see to it that a law is passed which provides that 

 these boxes shall be uniform. There have been laws passed, but they 

 have never done any good. 



Cold storage has beeij introduced recently. It is very important for 

 this reason: It used to be that when the apple time came they had to be 

 sold, and ofttimes there would be too many on the market, and of course 

 the price would be low. Now, in a case like this they can be put in 

 cold storage and sold when w'e get ready to sell them. They can be held 

 off of the market until the market restores itself to natural conditions, 

 so that cold storage, which is being established in every fruit section, 

 is changing the method of marketing fruit. So if you have a large crop 

 of apples there is no danger of your losing on it. People go out and 

 buy the fruit and ship it to a large cold storage plant and save it until 

 such time as it is necessary to put it on the market. You are relieved 

 of your surplus fruit in that way very largely until such time as the 

 market will take it at a profit to you. You are not placed at the disad- 

 vantage of having to put your apples on the market whether you want 

 to or not when there is a cold storage plant. You can ship j'our apples 

 to a commission man in Chicago, Indianapolis, or New York City, ^nd 

 say to him that you wish your apples held until January or February 

 or March. He will put the goods in cold storage and hold them. 



Now, this question of boxes is becoming quite popular in cold storage 

 houses, because the boxes are easily packed away, and they do not oc- 

 cupy so much space. This is in the experimental stage. Apples are 

 usually kept in cold storage at ol° or 32°. If I were going to keep 



