638 BOAKB OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Williams: I did not even say that these were Indiana berries. I 

 would just like to ask the strawberry growers, however, if their boxes 

 hold a quart V 



Mr. Swaim: The Star boxes hold a quart, for I have measured them. 

 They have sixty-eight cubic inches. There are several different kinds of 

 boxes, however. Three short pints will just make a quart. This makes 

 quite a difference. 



Mr. DeVilbiss: When I sell the skimpy ones I always sell them for a 

 light quart. 



Prof. Troop: I want to say a word on the box question. I believe, 

 as Mr. Williams says, that this Horticultural Society and the societies 

 of this State in every locality should take up this matter— this question 

 of uniform packages. I believe the time is coming when the State of 

 Indiana ought to have a law requiring all packages to be of a uniform 

 size. If thoy are not of a uniform size it should be so marked on the 

 box. It is a fact that you can go into the market in any town in this 

 State where berries are shipped and find two or three different sizes of 

 boxes. And the funny part of it is that they are all put on the market 

 as quart boxes. Many of them are snide quarts. They hold very much 

 less than the others. At the fruit stands and at grocei-y stores they will 

 charge you just the same for them as the others. There are very few 

 that know the difference. I think the bottom is farther up on some than 

 on others. I have tried many times, and you take three of these Avine 

 quart boxes and it will take only two full quart measures to fill them. 

 That is the difference. And, as I have alreadj' said. I believe some action 

 along this line should be taken, and there should be a law compelling the 

 manufacturers of boxes to make them of a uniform size. If they are 

 not full quarts they should be marked short, and marked in a place 

 where everyone could see it, so that they would know they were getting 

 a short box. Then no one could^ make you believe they were all llie 

 same size. 



Mr. Williams: I think the short boxes should be cut out altogether. 

 I think the short boxes should be eliminated entirely, and we should 

 have uniform boxes. They are not only iu berry boxes, but other kinds 

 of boxes as well. 



Prof. Lattai This is a proper subject for a resolution if someone 

 wishes to present it. 



Prof. Troop: I think this should apply to baskets as well as to boxes 

 I want to tell you this little incident. Last spring the grocerymen began 

 selling potatoes by the pound, sixty pounds to the bushel, and they sent 

 them out in baskets. I bought three bushels of potatoes and tht> thn^ ' 

 bushels fell short forty pounds. That is not right. 



