64 STATE. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Q, What do you do with vour cull stock? 



A. The cull apples were sold to the cider mill. The No. .3 peaches 

 were taken to the canning factory for pie stock. 



Q. What about windfalls? 



A. Windfalls were sold for cider. 



Q. How large a membership do you consider necessary to begin 

 an association? 



A. We had 50 certificates to start with but only sold 32 of them. 

 There were some that thought they would join, but held off until they 

 saw how we Avere coming out. We have had no trouble at all to get 

 members. We have now increased to a hundred and are making prepar- 

 ations to handle any amout of fruit that we can get. Most of the 

 orchards through Michigan are known as "Family Orchards." having 

 ten or more varieties of fruit, ^fy orchard has fifteen kinds. I have 

 one tree of snow apples. Now those few apples would be unsaleal)le 

 alone, but by selling them to the association they can make up a ship- 

 ment of one or more cars and get a good price for them. 



Q. How do you arrange to have the snow apples all picked the same 

 day? 



A. We don't do that. We hold them. They are not like ]>eaches 

 or beri'ies that have to be rushed onto the market, but we can hold them 

 for several days until we get enough to make uj) a good shipment. We 

 can make up any kind of a car that a man wants, sometimes as many 

 as four or five different varieties in one car, and can of course com- 

 mand the top price for such a car. 



Q. Do you ever keep stock through the winter? 



A. We have a car load or so in cold storage now and we may keep 

 it there. Up to now we have never kept stock over. I think that now 

 we are holding about 15 cars out of 300 for this year. 



Q. What salary do you pay your manager? 



A, That is private business. In fact, I don't know just what we 

 do pay him, but you may be sure that a man who sells |130,000 worth 

 of fruit is entitled to a good salary and we cannot get such a man for 

 nothing. We pay him what he earns, but you may be very sure that 

 he earns all that he gets. 



Q. How far does your fruit come? 



A. We have one member who hauls his fruit twelve mile<^, and brings 

 as high as ten and twelve loads a day, of 75 or 80 crates to the load. 

 We are believers in good stone roads and are building that kind for 

 the fruit growers. 



