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Pres. Morrill stated prices paid for tomatoes at other places, which 

 were not so favorable as prices here. They can't afford to pay more. 



Mr. Handy would rather grow cucumbers at 40 cents per bushel than 

 tomatoes at $8 per ton. 



Mr. Webster offered the following: "Resolved, That it is the sense of 

 this meeting that it is the interest of the farmer to take some contracts 

 with the pickle company. 



S. H. Comings offered to amend: ''Contracts sufficient to secure the 

 location of the pickle company hei'e." 



Mr. Webster accepted the amendment, which was carried. 



Mr. Webster said A. J. Merry is circulating a paper to agree to use 

 full quart packages. 



Mr. Watson said that " snide " packages are sent to Chicago and there 

 used for repacking. 



Mr. Handy said he knew of peaches being repacked there. 



Mr. A. Brunson: In Missouri, New Yorkers ship in "snide 1 ' barrels (11 

 pecks.) A New Yorker told him the 11 peck barrel was used in New 

 York, and not the three-bushel barrel. 



Mr. Comings said that there is a good deal of repacking done in Chicago. 



Mr. Brunson said that Mr. Hull ships a good many apples in three- 

 bushel barrels to send west. 



On March 13 the society met at Grange hall. 



Mr. Handy: In Chicago third-bushel boxes are repacked into peck 

 baskets and the latter sold for SI quicker than the third-bushel sold for 

 80 cents. 



A. Brunson said Donnellan had cleared $350 on three acres of 

 cue timbers. 



Mr. Morrill: The new company to locate here is to erect .$25,000 

 worth of improvements by July 1, 1891. 



Mr. Handy said he would rather raise cucumbers at forty cents per 

 bushel than tomatoes at ten dollars per ton. 



Mr. Mead of committee on packages, said that Geo. COxMings had 

 secured subscribers to sixty shares of stock in the new company. 



The secretary stated that Mr. Colby said that he would sell packages in 

 the flat as low as any one else. 



B. Brunson was in favor of patronizing the man who brings down the 

 price of packages. 



Mr. Handy said he did not think Mr. Colby would give us a figure 

 unless we could get stuff somewhere else cheaper than the old prices 

 here. 



President Morrill is in favor of patronizing home manufacturers, if 

 they will deal as favorably as any outsiders. 



Mr. A. A. Smith said it was no use for us to go to them individually. If 

 we can combine we can then get packages more favorably. 



Mr. Judson thought that probably we can get crates lower this year on 

 account of the uuusual supply of blown-down timber. 



S. Cook: They told me they had more timber on hand this year than 

 ever before. 



Mr. Morrill stated that they had lately refused an order from out 

 west for fifteen carloads of stuff in the flat. 



W. A. Brown: If you can get up a little competition between St. 

 Joseph and Benton Harbor it may be a good thing. 



