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tion, to realize fully as great returns, and I believe here is 

 another point where the market grower can be resourceful. 



This brings us up to a consideration of the packing, 

 ^ihe packing is a very important thing. I feel sure, from 

 Tuy study of the program, that the one who is to speak after 

 me will go over the situation perhaps overhaul us as farm- 

 ers, as we should be, on account of our laxness in proper 

 packing and grading. 



It pays well to pack a uniform grade of fruit under 

 the new law. under our Massachusetts law. I believe it 

 is a mistake, even though all the conditions required by the 

 law are met, to pack fruits of various sizes in the same 

 package. We ought to aim to have the fruit graded well 

 c'-S to size and color. 



I have spoken of the desirability of filling the package 

 well. If you fail to fill the package properly in the barrel 

 pack, of course you get into trouble at once, because short- 

 ly all the apples in the package are injured, but even in the 

 open package this is of more importance than is usually 

 realized. 



The next consideration should be transportation. Pos- 

 sibly some of you have been close to Professor Sears and 

 he has told you how he arranged it to have a trunk trolley 

 line pass through his orchard, but for many of us it is im- 

 possible to get a trunk trolley line through the orchard and 

 so we have the problem of transportation facing us very 

 abruptly. 



It is a big advantage to have a transportation line 

 giving both passenger and freight service, and I am glad 

 (tur laA\1s have been modified so we can have that service. 

 T have in mind a party thirty miles from Boston who said it 

 took ten days to get a refrigerator car to the siding to pack 

 fruit for the market. The express service is sometimes 

 equally annoying, although I think I detect, since the ad- 

 vent of the parcel post, a little more attention toward 

 handling express shipments in better shape; possibly they 

 have more time, and I think the rates are more favorable. 



