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Mr. TTalo: Yes. Our buildiiii; is KiO feet long, 40 feet wide, 2 stories 

 lii^li, basenu'iit iimlei' the Avhole. 



Mv. Morrill: Is vour fruit sold or cousigued? 



Mr. flale: I would say that we sold over half of the fruit right there, 

 and might have sold the other half liad we had it in large enough (pian- 

 tities to run a i-ai' out just as it was wanted. The buyers were not willing 

 to take what we had unless we had enough to till a car. 



Mr. Morrill: You sorted each man's fruit separately, of course, so as 

 to know how much of each grade he had? 



Mr. Hale: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Morrill: And then mixed the lots, and paid accordingly? 



Mr. Hale: Yes. Our plan of doing that was, when a man brought 

 his fruit we gave him a receii)t for his ungraded fruit. It was placed 

 on a bench by itself, graded, packed, and labeled, and before this was 

 disturbed or removed it was taken account of and he given credit for 

 what we graded out in different grades, so w^hen we got the returns we 

 knew just how much he had that day of that fruit. We made up an 

 average price that day — every man received alike for fruit disposed of 

 each day. For instance, we sell a man fifty bushels or a hundred bushels. 

 We take the general average and every man received the average for 

 that day. 



Mr. Morrill: How about your grades? You say 3'ou graded them in 

 certain grades, the grades to remain the same. 



Mr. Hale: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Morrill: One. two, three, and four, for instance. Now, how about 

 your varieties — for instance, your No. 1 of Elberta would be verj' large, 

 while your No. 1 of Barnard would not average in size with your No. 4, 

 probably, of Elberta, so far as size itself w-as concerned. How^ do you 

 reconcile the difference in size? 



Mr. Hale: So far as that is concerned, just the instance you have 

 mentioned, we did not have any Elbertas graded that way, nor any 

 of the other large-growing varieties to speak of, this year; but in ship- 

 ping, if they were Barnards we marked them Barnards. There would 

 not be any really fancy sizes of Barnard. 



Mr. Morrill: Do you keep the size No. 1 practically the same? 



Mr. Hale: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Morrill: And all above No. 1 of those very fine varieties would 

 go as fancy, and stand on their own merits — is that the idea? 



Mr. Hale: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Morrill: In that case, then, our Yerj large varieties would go in 

 as fancy? Mr. Hale: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Morrill: .Vll the specimens of a large variet}^ would go as fancj', 

 practically? Mr. Hale: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Reid: Your people were satisfied with the results this season? 



Mr. Hale: Thev were, ves, sir, well satisfied. 



Mr. Morrill: Did vou receive fruit from anv but your stockholders? 



Mr. Hale: We did some, not very much. 



Mr. Morrill: It was not your intention to do so? 



Mr. Hale: It w^as not our intention to do so, no, sir. We might have 

 done more of that, but outside of our company the orchards there were 

 bought up quite early in the season. 



