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cents if you want to measure it by that low, miserable standard 

 of dollars and cents. Put it on that ground, it will pay you better 

 than any other policy. 



PACKAGE EOR APPLES. 



Question. What is the best box for apples ? 



Mr. Hale: The best we know of yet is a box just about 22 

 inches long and about 10 inches deep, and ioj4 or 11 inches wide. 



Air. Knowlton : About like the Canadian box ? 



[The Canadian box is made of ^ lumber and its dimensions 

 are 10^x113^x21^ outside — cover and bottom narrower to 

 admit of ventilation. — Secretary.] 



Mr. Hale : Well, I think the Canadian box, if I remember 

 right, is a little wider than that. You want a box with not too 

 great a surface on the top for the heading, and ten or eleven 

 inches seems to be enough. You want it pretty nearly equal 

 depth and width so that in the cooling off process there wont be 

 any long ways to the center from any point. 



Mr. Knowlton : Do you have the box made open ? 



Mr. Hale : No, sir. Tight box, ^ inch material on the ends, 

 about 34 "ich veneering for the sides, bottom and top. I think 

 it would be an advantage to make these boxes with a little 

 thicker sides. The veneering sides spring a little and are apt 

 to crush the apples ; if the corner of one box strikes the fiat side 

 of another there will be some spring and bruising of the apple. 

 While the apple boxes that have already been made are about 34 

 inch material on the sides and bottom, and it will cost a little 

 more to make one with jA inch material, I think our best apples 

 will carry better in a box with a little thicker sides. 



O. Do you recommend wrapping apples in tissue paper? 



A. I would recommend wrapping in some sort of paper, I 

 am not sure yet whether tissue or paraffine paper or something 

 of that sort. What you want is to keep the apple away from 

 the air. The apples will shrink. They will shrink in cold 

 storage. I was talking with a gentleman yesterday on the 

 question of cold storage, and as I told him, when I was a kid and 

 used to go with the boys all round the neighborhood into every 

 cellar to get apples, we always found the best and finest in the 

 cellars that had wet bottoms, the damp, old cellars. We have 



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