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Mr. Graves — We pay a cent and a half. That is, make contract 

 to pay one and one-quarter, but if work is satisfactory through 

 season, pay cent and one-half. Pay the same for other small fruit, 

 raspberries and dewberries. We don't handle blackberries, 



Mrs. Hodge — In packing and grading fruit, is there any place 

 for apples with worm in the blossom end, but which is otherwise 

 sound? 



Mr. Tippin — The standard adopted provides that a certain per 

 cent, with worms in the blossom end may go in. Even when pack- 

 ing No. 1, one or two apples may go in the box and not injure the 

 grade, while a peck would ruin it. Just here is where good 3uag- 

 ment comes in. A limited number may sometimes go in, but when 

 there is 25 to 40 per cent, of the fruit of that grade, it will lower the 

 grade of the whole very badly. The same with No. 2 barrels. A 

 certain per cent, can go in the barrel, but a third to a half would 

 not go at all. 



Mr. May — I am much interested in the subject of packing, for 

 I realize the fact that even when a man does his best he don't al- 

 ways get full value for his fruit. I am just a young grower. This 

 year I had a large crop of apples. Mr. Tippin was in the orchard 

 early in the season and said if we got rain I would have 80 per cent. 

 No. 1 fruit. We didn't get rain soon enough and the codling moth 

 came, and when time came to gather crop we couldn't sell. So I 

 got ready and packed them myself, instructing the men to throw 

 out every apple with worm hole in it. Out of four to five thousand 

 bushels, packed and sold over seven hundred barrels. The rest are 

 on the ground in piles. But I didn't get the prices had been told. 



Mr. Tippin — This is a good object lesson. There is much 

 danger of getting our ideas too high, as well as too low. At the 

 fair Mr. May had the cleanest apples shown there. Kept him in 

 mind and meant to buy his fruit if I could. When a certain time 

 came and I thought could handle his fruit, I wired to know what 

 he would take for his fruit. He answered, and the price was twenty 

 cents too high. Couldn't possibly handle at the prices he gave me. 

 Mr. May had based the price in his mind upon quotations he had 

 received. The people who wanted him to consign his stuff misled 

 him by false statements. The mistake made by Mr. May has been 

 made by many others. Organization will generally govern these 

 things. 



Mr. Bell — I have listened attentively to what Mr. Tippin said, 

 and I agree with him as far as packing and selling when we have 

 our price, but don't approve of organizations. I speak as a grower 



