VeriMont State Horticultural Society. 23 



replied that the Vermont apple crop this year was from 4,000 to 

 5,000 barrels and that the net on the Vermont apples since last 

 Slimmer or early fall trade, was $1.64 a barrel for everything. No. 

 I, No. 2, windfalls and everything. Last season we had an 

 immense quantity of windfalls. If the apples of Vermont sold 

 on the open market in Boston at the rate of $1.64 up to date, 

 what will they sell for from now up to the first of April or middle 

 cf March ? \\niy not have a store house, or arrange for storing 

 in }Our cellar ; keep your apples ; then when the time and market 

 are ready, combine in your community and ship the apples when 

 and where they will bring the biggest price. 



Cost of boxes — After looking about for two or three years, 

 all over the country, I finally, through an advertisement in a St, 

 Louis paper ..found that a man right here in Rouses Point, my 

 nearest neighbor, had been making- these boxes for years. He 

 has different prices ; the boxes I have cost me 12 cents each ; 

 now they will cost more, about 13 cents, I believe. The Bristol 

 people make one at 23 cents. It takes 3^ boxes for a barrel ; 

 they hold a little less than a bushel. These people have been 

 making boxes for \\'estern New York people for years. You 

 write them ; INIillard & Sons, Rouses Point, N. Y., and they will 

 give you a list and cuts of the different sizes and shapes and 

 prices. 



A year ago we sent some boxes, a small shipment, and 

 where our Spies were selling for $5 a barrel, we sold the boxes 

 at the rate of $7.50 a barrel. Whether if we had sent a great 

 many we would ha^^e received the same price I do not know. 

 The three boxes wouldn't cost any more than the barrel and the 

 freight is no more., so it brings it just about the same, and 

 the boxes can go in on top of the barrels in the car and are out 

 of the way. 



Q. Do you consider this box better than a half barrel? 



A. I don't like them as well ; you can handle a barrel better 

 than a box containing half the quantity. 



I recommend that this Society adopt a standard that some 

 other Horticultural society has adopted. I believe the people 

 in Quebec have a box 10 x 11 x 20 and thev are endeavoring to 

 make that a legal standard. 



About facing up the boxes and filling them : It is 

 quite a difficult task at first to face a box well ; with a 

 barrel it is quite different, as it is round and the apples fit in 

 nicely ; it takes more patience to face a box well, but when you 

 get used to it, it is just as easy as can be. Your eye will take in 

 the measurements, just the size of apples it will take to fill the 

 box,, etc. You can make them come out even on the side, but 



