132 THE COXNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Vice Pres. Hubbard: Anj^body say it should? Anybody 

 say it should not ? 



A Member : jNIr. Albiston has been quite successful with it. 



Vice Pres. Hubbard: Our motto here is not the motto of 

 "The big red apple," but the motto of "The good red apple." 



Question 19. Local associations of growers for shipping 

 fruit. Have they been successfully tried in Connecticut? 



Mr. Farnham : I have been associated a little in this busi- 

 ness, but I call on Mr. Flight, who has been president of our 

 association, to answer that question. 



Mr. Flight : I could answer, yes. I happen to be the presi- 

 dent of the association they call The Highwood Fruit Growers' 

 Association, just out of New Haven, and w^e raised about three 

 hundred acres of strawberries. We started an association, and 

 Mr. Farnham and myself made arrangements with Mr. Ballou, 

 who represents the Armour Refrigerator Company. We write 

 to him every year for refrigerator cars. They furnish these at 

 ten dollars a car. We load those cars, furnish our o\vn ice, 

 and the railroad delivers the goods at 22 cents per hundred- 

 weight, which virtually means the sixty-quart crate of berries. 

 Now, we let everybody that grows berries in that neighborhood 

 put their fruit into the cars. We tax them half a cent a quart 

 for ice and refrigerator. At the end of the season we divide 

 pro rata. We guarantee to the railroad company $44 on every 

 car that goes out of Highw^ood ; if there is a shortage, it comes 

 out of the growers. At the end of the season we find it costs 

 us about a quarter of a cent a quart, besides the $44 and our 

 fruits. By cooperating, w-e get yery cheap rates, and we can 

 do it at a profit. If we didn't have this system — if we didn't 

 ship by car-loads — we would have to pay a cent and a half a 

 quart by Adams Express, and have fruit come into market 

 sometimes in pretty good shape to make wine of; but with the 

 refrigerator service it arrives in good shape. But, of course, in 

 some neighborhoods where you can't have a full car-load, you 

 couldn't do it. But where you can combine and load a car, it 

 makes no difference if these cars stand on the track for two, 

 three, four days — those berries wull arrive in Boston in better 

 shape than by express. And so by cooperating I would answer, 

 yes ; we can send our berries to market and make money. 



A Member: I would like to ask if anybody here is trying 

 to raise the Snow (Fameuse) apple; and if not, why not? 



