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barrel. That is why I dislike the barrel and recommend the bnshel 

 box. You can gently press the lid of the box into place without bruising 

 the apples and they can be packed in car to good advantage and the con- 

 sumer will buy a bushel box of apples instead of a peck or half bushel 

 when he knows the fruit is not bruised. They can be handled just as 

 quickly as barrels and I hope the day is not far off when we will adopt 

 the bushel box as the apple package. 



I thought it might be well to get an expression from the commission 

 merchants, retail dealers and consumers, so I wrote many of m.y personal 

 friends north, east, and south, asking what style package they preferred 

 and will read you the replies as far as received. Two of the leading 

 firms of Minneapolis differ as to the package, one advocates the standard 

 thre.e bushel barrel, the other firm without doubt handles more of the 

 far west fruit (California and Oregon) than any house in the northwest ; 

 they say let it be the bushel box, a neater package to handle and less 

 opportunity for fraud in packing. The large fancy grocery house of 

 Cincinnati, "The Joseph E. Peeble's Sons Co." say they prefer the bushel 

 box. John Wannamaker, of Philadelphia, says the bushel box, and the 

 letter which I read from a consumer certainly merits our consideration 

 for it is the consumer we should try to please. Put up all our fruit in 

 as neat and tempting packages as possible. 



DISCUSSION ON UNIFORM PACKAGES. 



Xelson. — Anything that brings three to eight cents extra to the 

 producer is worth working for, and the ten or thirty cents on a barrel 

 besides. Good barrels are scarce now. We must have boxes for suc- 

 cessful package for our best apples. 



G. T. Tippin presented the resolution which follows and it was 

 adopted: 



In view of the increasing demand for apples packed in bushel boxes, 

 both for domestic and export trade; of the greater convenience of this 

 package for retail use; of the less liability of damaging fruit wlien pack- 

 ing and handling; of the better shape of the package for cold storage than 



