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the Citrus •Protective League of Califoraia supervises the 

 citrus fruit business of that state andihe l>[orthwesteru Fruit 

 Excha-nge^marJve'tS'for the localorganizations the fruit of the 

 ' four Nortlnveat^ria states. 



■ '^ THE PRESIDENT : Are there any questions to be asked 

 Dr. Whittierl; 



MR. MIJNSON : I Avould like to ask Dr. Whittier if those 

 "were No. 1. apples he spoke about, and what constituted the 

 No. 1 apples in those barrels? 



DR. WPIITTIER:! didn't mean to say I bought them. 

 A friend told me that if he could get $1.25 f . p. b. for his No. 

 1 apples, that what he got above that would be velvet. They 

 were No. 1 apples., I know that. He is a well-known produ- 

 cer, and he puts up fine fruit, and his fruit is known quite 

 extensively. My brother is an apple buyer in that town, 

 and I know there were 700 barrels bought for $1 a barrel. 



MR. JMUNSON : But what was in those barrels ? 



DR. WHITTIER: They were No. 1 apples, they had to 

 be, in fact, because they were put through an examination. 

 It is a mighty grave problem to get the apples from the pro- 

 ducer to the consumer; it is one of the hardest we are up 

 against. 



- MR. C. K. SMITH: Do I understand that $1.25 includes 

 the cost of the apple? 



DR. WHITTIER: Yes, and they were paying 38 cents 

 for their barrels when I was there. 



MR. Sr^IITII : I had the bulletin from New York, show- 

 ing results, and giving the cost at $1.29, and that didn't in- 

 clude any fertilizer and also included items that New 

 England can't duplicate. For a period of five years the 

 average cost was $1.29. 



DR. WHITTIER: They would be somewhere around in 

 that vicinity'. 



MR. SMITH: That was the actual cost of producing 

 that barrel and delivering it at the station, over a mile and 

 a half of ordinary country roads . 



