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been talking about a dry cellar as the proper place for apples, it 

 has been advocated in our agricultural papers, but give me the 

 wet one and I will keep an apple longer and brighter every time. 

 So of cold storage, it is a question, I think, of which we know 

 actually very little at the present time, They merely get a good 

 cold room and put stuff in there and it will keep pretty well, but 

 I think our cold storage rooms want to have some plan of retain- 

 ing the moisture. If I had apples to store today in the average 

 cold storage house in barrels, I should arrange to sprinkle those 

 barrels twice a week as long as I kept the apples there. I would 

 take my chances on their coming out better than any other apples 

 in that storage house that looked equally well when they went m. 



Q. Those boxes you spoke of will hold about half a bushel ? 



A. Made to hold just a bushel, 50 lbs. of apples. 



Q. Most of them hold a little less than a bushel. 



A. They are intended to hold a full bushel of apples, the Cali- 

 fornia box is, and the Colorado box. We want a standard 

 American box and a standard of grading. You want a standard 

 that is made and maintained by your Pomological Society, so 

 that when an ol^cer of your society is willing to put his stamp 

 on a barrel it my be known all over the world, it may mean some- 

 thing. 



By G. Harold PovvSll, Agricultural Department, Washington. 



I desire to add a few words m regard to the box as a package 

 for the finer grades of apples. I have recently been in the land 

 of the "big red apple" in Missouri and Kansas, and I found sev- 

 eral growers, especially among the younger men, adopting the 

 box for the better apples such as the Grimes and the Jonathan. 

 Their box is much like the Colorado box of the dimensions given 

 by Mr. Hale. They are made of white wood and are the most 

 attractive and best formed box for the purpose I have seen. 

 They cost about 10}^ cents knocked down by the thousand. The 

 top and bottom of the box bulge out when the cover is put on, 

 but the boxes are stored on their sides so that no pressure comes 

 on the bulge. The tops and bottoms and each side were made 

 of one solid piece each rendering the package very attractive. 



Apples need to be packed very tight in the box or they shake 

 around in transit and bruise badly. I found one young man 



