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people made the mistake of picking too soon. He also said that two 

 pickings of a tree is preferable, the outside of a tree being first picked 

 and leaving time for the inside fruit to color, this being particularly true 

 of the Ben Davis. Mr. Hendrickson agreed with this opinion and added 

 that apples should not be left to sweat under the trees but should be 

 barreled and put into cold storage as soon as possible. The subject of 

 too early picking had not been considered by many of the members and 

 nearly every member had some question to ask or some valuable experi- 

 ence to give. Mr. (Jummings, of Portland, Me., introduced the follow- 

 ing resolution : 



"Resolved: — That the I^ational Apple Shii^pers' Association, in con- 

 vention assembled, hereby respectfully request the receivers of American 

 and Canadian apples in the city of Liverpool, Eng., to adopt an invariable 

 rule of allowing no rejections from apples once catalogued and sold in 

 the auction room, and the secretary of this association is hereby directed 

 to mail a copy of this resolution to each receiver of sail goods in said city 

 at an early date." 



In support of this resolution Mr. Cummings related his experience 

 in witnessing auction sales in Liverpool. Mr. Forster, of ISTew- York, and 

 Mr. Peterson and Mr. Shuttleworth also discussed the resolution, the last 

 named being of the opinion that rejections are few. Mr. Pred Pritchard, 

 of Liverpool, was called upon and thanked Mr. Cummings for the trib- 

 ute he paid to the integrity of the Liverpool brokers. He stated the 

 difficulties in the way of correcting the abuses complained of. He drew 

 a comparison between the broker of to-day and the time when he first 

 entered the business. He said that the buyers in England now dictate 

 terms to receivers and brokers somewhat as the members of this 

 association dictate terms to farmers. He did not see how the passage 

 of the resolution could help matters. He thought no apple shipper's 

 education was complete without a visit to England. 



Mr. Pritchard moved as a matter of courtesy that a copy of the reso- 

 lution be sent to the secretary of the Emit Buyers' Association of lyiver- 

 pool, and stated that its object was to drive the disreputable houses out 

 of business and had the support of a large part of the trade of Chicago. — 

 Report from Fruit Trade Journal. 



