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of one kind of apples, I think it would pay; but if he has his orchard 

 divided with different kinds of apples, I do not think it would pay. 



Mr. Van Houton — I do not like to engage in a bee discussion, but 

 I would like to say that I do not think bees are necessary to an or- 

 chard's success; I wouldn't give a man a cent a hive for bees to put 

 in the orchard. I agree when it comes to plums or pears, or some 

 fruit trees that it may be essential ; to the Bartlett pear and Miner 

 plums I think they are almost essential to success, but when it comes 

 to apples I do not think it is essential for success. 



Mr. Wild — As to the question of the bees and paying a dollar a 

 hive for the use of the bees for pollination. Now, if he is a neighbor, 

 I would not pay him anything, bat if they come from a distance, I 

 would buy the hive. 



Mr. Goodman — I think I would tell a man, if I had an orchard that 

 he could put his bees in there if he wanted to ; the universal opinion 

 on that question seems to be that it would not pay. 



Q. Who has Bristons Ironclad apple in bearing? 



Sec. Goodman — I do not know the apple. 



Q. How can the fruit-growers organize so as to keep from glutting 

 the market? 



Sec. Goodman — I believe if we could have something like an ex- 

 press company organized to take charge of the fruit, and know that 

 the express company was good, have them under bond, to make proper 

 returns on the fruit, so that you and I when we send our fruit to some 

 market would know absolutely that he did, so that the agent who had 

 charge of that fruit would know in what condition the fruit was re- 

 ceived and what was the condition of the fruit there, then he could not 

 say it was rotten when it was every bit good ; I do not know that any- 

 thing of that kind is possible, but I do not know how we are going to 

 help ourselves until something of that kind is done. These co-opera- 

 tion associations and fruit-growers unions are entirely in one man's 

 hands ; now, if the man is capable of taking the shipments from all 

 districts, and is an upright, honest man, why it is all right, but you can- 

 not get that man. 



Mr. Hensley — I think the Berry Association is working on about 

 the right line. The way they have been working up the South Mis- 

 souri and Arkansas Associations, they havo sent their agents out to 

 the different parts where they are expected to ship fruit to ; each man 

 brands his own fruit — sometimes 30 or 40 growers will ship in the same 

 car, but each man's fruit is marked with his name, and the man whom 

 it goes to will realize a dollar on some, a dollar and a quarter and a 

 dollar and a half; each man's brand is on his own fruit, and it is neces- 



