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Mr. Corbett: That question answers itself. A pretty lady 

 is never the worse looking for being nicely dressed. A barrel 

 of apples should be put up nicely. 



Mr. Philips (Wisconsin): Apples packed in new barrels 

 bring the best prices. It pays to ship in new barrels. It is 

 quite a considerable work to face out small crab apples. 



Mr. Corbett: It will add twenty-five cents a barrel to the 

 price. It will pay to face your apples for the time spent in 

 doing it. 



Dr. Frisselle: I do not know, but would it not be well to put 

 them up in smaller packages, say in half barrels? 



Mr. Corbett: The barrel is the standard we work from, and 

 as far as price is concerned I do not think it makes any differ- 

 ence whatever. 



Dr. Frisselle: It is somewhat difficult to press fruit of this 

 sort. Does the color have anything to do with the price the 

 apples bring? 



Mr. Palmer: "Well, the red apple sells for much more than 

 the lighter color, and sells better. A red apple will outsell any 

 other color. 



Mr. Corbett: I do not know that there is so much difference. 

 You get more uniformity with the red apple than with the 

 yellow. There is but little difference to the trade. In North 

 Dakota and Winnipeg the red crab is much more desirable. 

 But in South Dakota there are thousands of people who want 

 the yellow crab apple. 



Mr. Wedge: Do you think another crab as good a shipper 

 as the Hyslop and colored red would sell as well? I will say 

 the Hyslop is hard to raise. 



Mr. Corbett: I do not think it would make any difference 

 what it was. 



Mr. Kellogg (Wisconsin): You would sell it for the Hyslop 

 anyway. (Laughter). 



Mr. Corbett: Well, we always sell what the people want. 



Pres Underwood: In shipping some delicate apples like the 

 Whitney, that are liable to bruise, I was going to ask if it would 

 not be desirable to ship them in small packages. 



Mr. Corbett: I do not think it would be from the peculiar 

 situation of our market. It does not cut any figure with the 

 trade. They do not want any special fruit simply because it is 

 early or has some other good point about it. The people are 

 willing to wait until later in the season when more is offered 



