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forth, have not made use of the by product and the result is increase 

 of output, and the northwest apples although they increase they do not 

 get the price they should for their high grade fruit. When it comes to 

 the package, the barrel certainly has a great big place here in this coun- 

 try and will always have. 



Mr. Green: Some oC you men have been asking about Delicious 

 apples, and I want to bring that up in connection with this matter of pack- 

 age, because it will serve as an illustration. I opened up a barrel of Deli- 

 cious shipped me by the grower in eastern Iowa, who is very careful in his 

 methods of packing. I know he had given it the very best of care, and 

 it had been in storage for three or four months, and I opened it up and 25 

 per cent of those were bruised and rotted, and could not be handled. 

 The Delicious is a good keeper in a smaller package, and we must adapt 

 these packages to other similar grades and kinds of apples that will carry 

 better in smaller packages. 



Mr. Cooper: We have been doing a great deal of packing in Kansas. 

 At the station we have been doing a great deal of packing in boxes. Our 

 most tender varieties we find will hold up better in boxes. We have been 

 buying our boxes in carload lots, and we get those boxes in carload lots 

 and find it costs but 10 cents apiece to pack this box. Well, the cost of 

 packing in boxes comes up from 60 to 75 to sometimes 80 cents for three 

 bushels, considering the cost of everything. While in barrel packing we 

 paid from 35 to 37^^ cents in carload lots. It costs about 25 to 30 cents 

 to pack those, so that brought the cost of packing in barrels in from 60 

 to 80 cents. It does not cost as much to pack in barrels as it does in 

 boxes. But when it comes to selling, we realize from 25 to 30 cents more 

 on the boxed than we do on the barreled stuff. 



At Parker, Snyder & Rodiger have 1,200 acres of apples. They have 

 been getting better prices for their boxed stuff than the other. As Mr. 

 Green suggested they are putting their best grades in boxes. They dis- 

 pose of nothing at all in bulk except what they consider the cull apples, 

 to be used for vinegar and such things as that. I think that is the way 

 we will have to do in this state, to pack our best stuff in boxes to meet 

 the demand of our smaller customers. 



A Member: This year in a Colorado orchard, there was quite a large 

 per cent of Jonathan apples, which were undersized, they ran below two 

 inches and on that account could not be packed in the standard grades 

 of the state. The grower packed these apples in half boxes and wrapped 

 each apple just as we would have, had the apples been two and three- 

 quarter and three-inch size. And they were packed in tiers, but instead 

 of labeling those apples "Jonathan" he called them "Cherry Jonathan." 

 The standard crates of Jonathan sold at a dollar and a half. And these 

 half boxes so far have been selling for 65 cents; so he is ahead on a low 

 grade apple. These Jonathans were absolutely perfect; they were beau- 

 tiful little things, and the only trouble was the size, they were too small. 

 A man of a family can buy a box of that sort and he gets a great deal more 

 eating out of a box like that than a barrel, where he would have to throw 

 away a large per cent of them. 



