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if the fruit is not properly packed? A man comes to you and says I 

 will not buy your apples because I would not have any chance of pro- 

 tection for myself. What is going to happen to the man that fills 

 the middle of the barrel with culls and puts good apples in the top 

 and bottom? Go to your legislature and get them to start an inspection 

 law. We have this inspection law and our apples can be branded fancy. 

 No. 1, No. "2 and No. 3. Our No. 1 can not have more than ten per cent 

 of blemishes and must be of good color and fair size for the variety 

 of the apple. Our No. 2 may have twenty per cent of blemishes; they 

 may not be well colored. The No. 3 can not be sold at all except as 

 culls. We have men educated by the government as inspectors who 

 travel all over, and I do not care where you are, they will mark them. 

 We will say they are No. 1, and they will mark them possibly to be 

 sold as No. 2, which means a difference to us of fifty cents, or possibly 

 you may be fined $100. I would fine a man a dollar a barrel. 



Are you boxing any of your apples? 



Mr. Marshall: Yes. 



Are you boxing many? 



Mr. Marshall: Not many. 



I believe I am safe in saying that |4 a barrel is a fair price for 

 your winter apples last fall? 



Mr. Marshall: No, that is too much. 



Well, take it at that much for winter apples. I have been in quite 

 a number of fruit stores within the past two weeks in your own country 

 and I find that a great many apples are being shipped in from other 

 states; those apples cost $2.25 a box laid down at the store. I know 

 men who sent away and didn't get that much for them. Now, I have 

 estimated the apples at $4 a barrel, and apples at $2.25 a box, that 

 would be $6.75 for three boxes, which equals a barrel. A barrel would 

 cost about forty cents, packing a box would cost not more than twenty 

 cents. That would be sixty cents to equal three boxes, which would 

 leave $3.40 for the apples in the barrel. Now, these three boxes of 

 apples would be $6.75 and the packing would be forty cents and the 

 boxes would be forty cents. Now, you can readily see that there is a 

 margin between the boxed apples and those put up in the barrels: 

 there is probably $2 difference between the apples put up in barrels 

 from those put up in boxes. I would advise you young men to box 

 more of your apples than you are, and by taking better care of your 

 small orchards your revenue will be equal to the big men. I lived in 

 Kansas awhile, in Scotland awhile, and in Nebraska awhile, and I have 

 been working for the government of Ontario for a number of years, 

 and T have eome to the conclusion that the man with a small farm well 

 taken care of is making more money and has a happier life than the 

 large farmer. I urge upon every fruit grower to make up his mind 

 that he is going to have the best fruit that can be put up, establish a 

 reputation for honesty and as soon as you get that you can not begin 

 to supply the demand. The Hood river men get $3 a box for Missouri 



