450 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Bush : We are raising a great many apples, and they can be 

 most easily handled in those boxes. The same is also true of onions 

 — and the best growers are largely handling them in these bushel 

 boxes Prof. Green speaks of. The men who do not have them are 

 obliged to sell their onions early in the season, while the men who 

 have them can pile them up in sheds or storage places and hold them 

 until they are wanted in the south, and they sell them for from 

 seventy-five cents to $1.00 per bushel, while their neighbors are com- 

 pelled to sell them early in the season for fifty cents a bushel. I 

 believe our apples can go to market in these bushel boxes, and I be- 

 lieve they will bring more money. I believe we are waking up to the 

 value of this kind of a package. 



Mr. Carl Vollenweider : I would like to state how I ship my 

 apples to market. I take a board a foot wide and have it planed 

 down to three-fourths of an inch, and then saw the ends for the boxes 

 1 1 inches long. Then I get common slats, plane them and saw them 

 233^ inches long. That makes a box 22 inches on the inside, by 11 

 inches wide and a foot high, and they hold five pecks of apples, and I 

 can take thirteen and set them into the wagon box so they will fit 

 tight. There is no room left to shake about, and if the sideboards 

 are wide enough I put a slat across and set another tier on top. 

 That makes twenty-six boxes I can take to market at one time. 

 That makes thirty-two bushels, and the apples all get to market in 

 first-class shape. I was thinking of making inquiries here as to how 

 fruit is shipped into this market, and I would be very much pleased 

 to have the society establish a standard fruit package in which we 

 could ship our fruit. 



(Allowing for 2,150.40 cubic inches to the bushel — the Winchester 

 bushel — the above dimensions figure out 1.35 bu., a little over a 

 bushel and one-third, a generous allowance for the necessity of fill- 

 ing the box scantily. — Sec'y.) 



Mr. M. Cutler: I would like to ask Mr. Bush what the size of 

 the box or crate is that he mentioned? 



Mr. Bush : The size is about the same as has been spoken of, 

 so it will hold a full bushel ; just so the fruit or vegetables will go in 

 a little deeper than the top of the box to avoid bruising those that are 

 on top. 



Mr. Cutler : Are the boxes made tight ? 



Mr. Bush : No, they are made of lath. They cost about six or 

 seven cents apiece. 



Mr. Jno. Freeman: I just, want to ask a question in line with 

 that asked by the last speaker. I wish it might be determined what 

 are the dimensions of the true bushel package, inside measurements ? 



Prof. Green: The height of the box is just a trifle over eight 

 and one-half inches ; the other dimensions are the same as have been 

 given. 



Mr. D. T. Wheaton : What is the customary way of selling 

 fruit and vegetables, by bushel measurement or weight? 



The President : When you go a little further west you will find 

 everything sold by weight. You can hardly mention a thing that is 



