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found them prompt in filling orders and gentlemanly in their 

 treatment of customers. 



Mr, Tuttle. I have used these boxes for a good many years; 

 have used both kinds. The full quart is a lower box than the 

 others; it has less open space. I find the full quart boxes, when 

 the beri-ies are put up so as to fill them full, will settle down. 

 They don't look as well as when put up in the other boxes, for 

 they heap the berries, putting on all they can lay on, and set the 

 boxes on each other. People would rather see boxes heaping 

 full than not full, but I don't think they get any more fruit than 

 where it is put into the other boxes. I find it the uniform prac- 

 tice, in using boxes of the larger size, not to fill them quite full. 



Mr. Harris. I would state that Wells & Co. are manufactur- 

 ing a box that you want to round up; also we have the wine 

 measure. Dealers will buy by one measure and sell by the other, 

 and in that way will make about every sixth quart. 



Mr. Busse. A good many strawberry growers here use the 

 half bushel. 



Mr. Harris. I don't approve of selling them in that way for 

 the dealer will always want to make about forty quarts to the 

 bushel. 



President Smith. I don't say that the berries put into those 

 boxes are all full quarts, but I believe them to be the nearest to 

 the exact seal measure of anything that we can get; consequently 

 I have no hesitancy in recommending them. 



HEIs'NEPIN COUNTY HOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Smith then presented a report from the Hennepin County 

 Horticultural Society. 



First annual report of the Hennepin County Horticultural So- 

 ciety, organized February 16, 1884, at Market Hall, Minneapolis. 

 A temporary organization was effected by the election of M. 

 Pearce, chairman; W. H. Brimhall, secretary. At the second 

 meeting a permanent organization as follows: 



President — M. Pearce. 

 Vice President — C. L. Smith. 

 Secretary — W. H. Brimhall. 

 Treasurer — H. F. Busse. 



Executive Committee — J. S. Gray, G. S. Woolsey, E. M. Chan- 

 dler, Wm. Lyons, G. H. Roberts. 



