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MR. MUNSON: Have you experimented any with the 

 evaporated apple? 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH : No. We loiow nothing 

 about evaporating. I think I am safe in saying that the 

 average cost of the evaporating work is three to four cents 

 per pound. 



MR. FROST: I would like to ask if any one here ha» 

 used an evaporator? I know one man in New York who has 

 evaporated apples, claims that he finds it the best way ol 

 using the apples, and that he had a market for all his cores 

 and skins dried. A few years ago he was shipping all of his 

 cores and skins to Germany at a good profit. 



THE PRESIDENT : I understood that one of the hard- 

 ships that we were undergoing on account of the war situa- 

 tion was that we couldn't export cores and skins to Europe, 

 to come back as champagne. 



MR. SMITH: I would like to ask the gentleman about 

 his experience with canning, as to whether his experience 

 would justify him in an opinion as to whether a cooperative 

 cannery would be profitable and advisable for the communi- 

 ty. 



3IR. BROWNE : I will say both yes and no. If there is 

 some good strong hand guiding that thing and the others 

 are willing to lie down when they are told to, it can be done. 

 But, for instance, take tomatoes; it is impossible to make a 

 uniform pack of tomatoes. If you were to take the Match- 

 less and the Bonny Bess and the June Pink, and a lot of those 

 as they came in, and put them into cans, you would have a 

 tomato that would have to grade about second or third 

 ^rade. It would mean that the men in the locality must 

 pack the same variety of the same vegetable. In canning 

 squash you would want either Marrow or Hubbard. If the 

 growers of the locality really meant business and got togeth- 

 er and agreed, then I think that a cooperative canning plant 

 ■would be profitable, because it would assure them of some 

 profit for their stuff, and not poor excuses, such as they 

 often get from the shippers or commission men. 



