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miiiiiii;' iuterests abound and wlu^re their advantai^cs art; 

 ratlur mixed. 1 found men there whom 1 had visited some 

 8 years ai^o and who then were marlceting their apples in 

 barrels. They are now shipping from 20 per cent to 25 per cent 

 of their best fruit through an organization. They are selling 

 this fruit in 40 pound boxes and this year this fruit in boxes 

 run from |7 to |8 a box. Th(^y are shipped to the large 

 markets. In the last 8 years they have worked up a demand 

 for that fine class of fruit, so that this year about 25 per cent 

 of their fruit went into that rhiss of packages. They had 

 the other 75 per cent of their fruit to put in barrels and got 

 just about as much for it after they had taken out the 25 

 per cent of the liigliest grade as for the whole of it before. 

 Thev said thev had no trouble to market the highest grade 

 and could have sold it all at the highest price if they had had 

 the fruit of that grade, and that they made more money out 

 of one-quarter of their crop marketed in that way than if 

 they had marketed the whole crop in barrels. 



Another thing that was new to me ; they said that when they 

 took out that best grade of fruit they could get about the same 

 price for it as they could have if the best fruit was in barrels, 

 because the uniformity in size is more essential than the size. 

 Ay)ples to sell well should be uniform in size and in a box of 

 apples unless they are graded the big ones spoil the uniformity. 

 In other words if a barrel has one big apple and the others 

 smaller they don't look so well, — it is the uniformity in size 

 that makes them sell. 



Aside from the methods of organization and shipping T 

 want to mention another thing; any recent advancement in 

 horticulture is due lo the fruit grower himself. He has 

 learned what to do for the first tine, and he has learned that 

 the tree is a thing of life, a living thing. I don't think we 

 can emphasize that point too much. If you take the fruit 

 books and journals you v\ill find that the further back you go 

 the more the fruit grower had a d(^finite plan and skeleton 

 for the shape of his tree, to secure uniformity of the limbs. 



