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Prof. Waugh : I was going to say, Mr. Patch, the Boston 

 commission man, was telhng us a few weeks ago about this 

 question, and he very emphatically said the apple barrel was the 

 best thing; he is opposed to the boxes. 



Mr. Fenn : I think when the public demands the box it has 

 got to come. When that time arrives we have got to have the 

 box, but until that time I don't think we ought to impose it 

 upon them. I was foolish enough to invest in 200 boxes a few- 

 years ago. I sold more to Prof. Gulley than anybody else ; 

 and for the very reason I did not find buyers who would take 

 the apples in boxes. I could not find a buyer who would pay 

 the price. That was the first objection. 



Mr. Hoyt : There was a case right along this line that came 

 under my own observation. A gentleman in Westchester 

 County, N. Y., who bought apples and peaches and sold them in 

 New York. He came out to our place one day and I was speak- 

 ing to him about the bushel box for apples. I gave him my 

 ideas about the advisability of packing them nicely in boxes of 

 about a bushel. I thought no more about it until about Thanks- 

 giving time, when I had a telephone from him one Sunday 

 telling me to pack my apples in boxes. I had about a thousand 

 bushels in Maine, and I packed my nicest apples in boxes and 

 went down with him to Seigel-Cooper's big store in New York. 

 We asked them if they wanted any apples, and they said: "No, 

 we can buy all we want here in New York for a dollar and a 

 half a barrel." But I said we had them in boxes nicely packed. 

 They said they'd like to see a sample. So I sent down a dozen 

 boxes and when they saw them they asked how many I had. 

 I said I had a thousand, and they said they'd take them all. 

 Now, if you will look in the Herald you will see in Seigel- 

 Cooper's advertisement that they are selling those apples for 

 $1.45 a box. 



You say here you don't want to impose them upon the people. 

 But the people want to see them in boxes and then they'll buy. 

 The supply will make the demand. Put your apples in nice 

 cases and the market will take them. They don't ask for the 

 boxes because they are not acquainted with them. They take 

 what you give. 



Mr. Seymour : I am very miich interested in all these things. 

 I have spent nearly five years on the Pacific coast and I have 



