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the difference is certainly small. Now the difficulty about 

 making any change is this, nearly every fruit grower has 

 got his material on hand and is making or has made his 

 boxes for next year, and I do not think it would be 

 advisable to make any change at present. We never sell by 

 the quart, they are simply boxes. You will not get one cent 

 more for your fruit, and I do not think we can improve on what 

 we have now ; we are not cheating anybody, but selling a short 

 quart, and they know it is short. It is often the case that they 

 will often measure as much as full quarts. Not only this, but 

 the factories are cutting their material and I know I have all 

 my material on hand for next season. 



Geo. J. Kellogg: I do not know how we can regulate this mat- 

 ter. The machines are all at work cutting their boxes in Michi- 

 gan and Illinois. We have got to make it a national question. 

 There is another trouble here with our local dealers. They take 

 your twenty -four box crate of berries and set them on the outside 

 of their stores and people come along and pick off a nice berry, 

 and every time a good berry goes off it reduces the quart, and 

 when you get your box home you go for the grower, but never 

 for the grocery dealers or commission men. 



E. H. S. Dartt: Now there is another question: Do not 

 grocery men divide the boxes andimake them smaller? 



President Elliot: We will have to draw this discussion to a 

 close. The next topic on the program is a paper on "Wild 

 Fruits in Northern Minnesota," by Dr. Jas. R Walker, St. 

 Anthony Park, Minn. {See index.) 

 A discussion on Wild Fruits succeeded. 



President Elliot: If there are no other points in the paper that 



need to be ventilated we will take up the next topic which 



is a paper on Forestry, by Professor Fernow. of Washington. 



The secretary then read the following paper: ''Forestry," 



by Prof. B. E. Fernow, Washington, D. C. (See index.) 



President Elliot: We have another paper on this subject, 

 I understand, by Mr. Folsom . 



S. H. Folsom: It will take about twenty minutes to read my 

 paper. Please excuse me from reading it and I will submit it 

 to the publication committee . 



President Elliot: The next subject then is a paper on 



Forestry in the Northwest, by Mr . Barrett, of Brown's Valley . 



Mr. J. O. Barrett then £>roceeded to read the following 



paper, entitled: "What Forest Trees are Best Adapted to Our 



