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enough to supply the demand. Have you ever tried bushel bask- 

 ets with slat covers for shipping apples? A great many are 

 using them in this section. We can furnish you bushel baskets 

 with covers delivered to Boston in car lots at $1.50 per dozen." 

 In another letter they say: "Nearly all of our large peach crop 

 and a good share of the apple crop in Michigan has been mark- 

 eted in bushel baskets. This package seems to be growing in 

 favor with the shipper everywhere." 



In connection with the berry and fruit packages which are 

 exhibited on the table — and I wish everyone interested in the 

 matter of small fruits would give them careful examination — are 

 a lot of berry baskets manufactured from paper, lined with 

 paraffine. It seems to me that they are about as nearly an ideal 

 package as anything that we can have for small fruits. 



There is also another exhibit — I speak of it now because I may 

 not think of it again — the paring machines, apple knives and 

 various articles, tools, etc., connected with the use of apples, 

 from the Goodale Company. They have sent a good lot of cir- 

 culars and I wish every lady would take one of the circulars 

 "Turning apples into gold." There are interesting and perhaps 

 valuable recipes in connection with manufacturing apples in 

 various ways for domestic use. 



A recent newspaper item says : "A New Jersey fruit grower, 

 Mr. Samuel A. Miller, packs his apples in bushel boxes lined 

 with corrugated paper, and tissue inside of that. The apples are 

 polished to bring out the beauty of the coloring and then placed 

 in regular rows, three layers deep, 84 apples to the box." These 

 apples command a fancy price only on account of the care used in 

 packing, and the market for such fruit has never been glutted. 



J. H. Hale who has several times been with us in Maine, is one 

 of the most successful peach growers in the United States, and 

 has devoted a great deal of attention to growing and packing for 

 long shipments. At the Pomological Convention in Boston, he 

 declared that fruit well matured on the tree, if rightly handled, 

 will keep better, look better, and sell better than fruit packed half 

 ripe. Mr. Hale also stated that fruit packed in paper wrappings 

 sells from 10 to 25 per cent higher than the market price. 



Until quite recently every commission man in New England 

 would tell you emphatically that you must not send apples to him 

 in boxes. But this year a change has been coming about, as you 



