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sides, of any question that comes up here, so that if any one 

 does not agree with Professor Chenoweth, I want him to feel 

 perfectly free to ask questions or present discussion on the 

 other side of the question. Present your own ideas or ask 

 questions as to the things Professors Chenoweth hasn 't made 

 quite clear. 



MR. C. K. SMITH : I would like to ask how large thosb 

 cans are supposed to be. 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH: This one (holding up a 

 can of preserves) is the No. 3 can. That is the trade size. 



THE PRESIDENT : Can you give us an idea of what 

 that No. 3 is, so that it will appear on the record? 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH : What you would ordin^ 

 arily call a quart can, tomato size. The peas were 16 cans 

 to the bushel, half a size smaller, about a pint and a half, 21 

 ounces. The tomatoes were No. 3 and a bushel produced 18 

 cans. Raspberries, No. 2 cans, about 1^/4 pints. The black- 

 berries were in the same size; strawberries were of the same 

 side as the peas, namely, No. 21/2 ; plums the same as the 

 beans, the quart size ; the peaches were put up in both No. 

 21/^ and No. 3, and as far as I have been able to find out there 

 is very little difference in the price when you go to buy them. 

 Price does not depend upon quantity so much as quality. 



QUESTION: What do you mean when you say four 

 cents a can for tomatoes? 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH : What it costs to grow 

 and can them. 



QUESTION: Does that include everything? 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH: Yes everything. 



QUESTION : Have you got the address of the men that 

 did it? I would like to get that before I go home. 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH : I think you will find 

 any of the Government publications will give you the data 

 as 49 cents a dozen for the ordinary price throughout the 

 whole tomato belt that they reckon for growing and canning 

 the tomatoes, and they reckon about 80 or 90 cents a dozen 

 wholesale. The can and container cost about 2 cents a can 



