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Mr. Durand — I gather my apples in bushel boxes. I fix the watjon 

 so that it will hold thirty bushels without putting one box upon another. 

 These we haul to the barn or packing house. These boxes cost me thir- 

 teen cents each. 



Mr. Bell — I will try the boxes hereafter. 1 will also buy apples by 

 weight. The farmer can unload the boxes quickly, take empty boxes 

 back. 



Mr. Ames — The question of marketing also involves the question 

 of transportation." What is the best market and how to reach it is also 

 a very important question. Our position or latitude enables us to reach 

 northern markets before our eastern friends can reach them. We must 

 plant more so that we can get the transportation companies to give us 

 better rates. 



EVAPORATING FRUIT 



BY J. ]]. DURAND, PRAIRIE CITY. 



Mr. President : 



, There is one subject connected with fruit-growing which I consider 

 of much importance, that has been discussed but very little in the meet- 

 ings of this and our local societies. I speak of fruit evaporating. I 

 will only consider the subject from a fruit-grower's standpoint, and not 

 as a business within itself. I hold that every fruit-grower, no matter 

 how large or how small, should have an evaporator of sufficient capacity 

 to work up all of his second-class fruit of every kind — apples, peaches, 

 or berries, and sell nothing in a fresh or green state except strictly 

 choice fruit — evaporate everything else. By pursuing this course, you 

 will sometimes realize more from your culls than you will from your 

 choicest fruit. For instance, two years ago, I received for my picked 

 apples 33 cents per bushel and evaporated my culls, which, after count- 



