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Mr. Palmer: The Transcendent, but as a rule it comes into 

 the market too ripe for shipment. Of course, it is all right 

 for the local market. 



Mr. Bunnell: How does the Hyslop compare in price with 

 the other varieties'? 



Mr. Palmer: It always brings more. 



Mr. Philips (Wisconsin): How is the Whitney No. 20? 



Mr. Corbett: Well, we are not familiar with the names of 

 varieties. 



Mrs. Kennedy: I was taken quite severely to task yesterday 

 by some of our good people for saying that some people were 

 so ignorant, and now it appears that some of you fruit men are 

 so ignorant that you take a rail to knock off your apples with. 

 (Laughter). Mr. Corbett, I am very much obliged to you for 

 that information. 



Mr. Harris: Ordinarily the fruit men who send their fruit 

 in that st^-le do not belong to the State Horticultural Society. 

 I live in Houston county. I have seen thousands of bushels of 

 crabs lying under the trees breeding worms, because at La 

 Crosse they could not get more than fifteen cents a bushel for 

 them. One La Crosse merchant told me he had often bought 

 them and sent them up here to this market and cleared one 

 dollar a bushel on them. I believe what we have heard here 

 will do us more good than what this meeting will cost us. This 

 past year I sold my crab apples for twenty-five to fifty cents a 

 bushel. For very fine fruit, I got fifty cents a bushel. I left 

 orders at home to dispose of all they could at home, and I lost 

 §150.00 by not sending them to this market. I would like to ask 

 the gentlemen here if it would pay to pack such tender varieties 

 as the Transcendent in small packages'? I see farmers who 

 have perhaps one hundred bushels. The farmer loads his 

 wagon Vjox full of apples, and then he fills a lot of sacks with 

 apples and puts them on top of the boxful, and then on top 

 of all he piles his wife and children and the hired man. hitches 

 his team to the wagon, and those apples are bumped up hill and 

 down hill, and then they are sold to the local merchant and 

 barreled up and sent to Minneapolis. I told one of tho.se men 

 it would pay him to buy bushel baskets. 



Mr. Corbett: Our firm alone had to cancel orders for over 

 two hundred barrels of apples this fall. 



Mr. Stac}': It is best to pack them in barrels: that is the 

 uniform package. 



Prof. Green: Does it pay to face the barrels, the fruity 



