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MR. SMITH : Why, no, but I consider the box far and 

 away in advance of the barrel for marketing Mcintosh. I 

 consider Mcintosh too good a fruit to put into a Bostou 

 market bushel box. 



A MEMBER: 1 want to ask Mr. Smith if he used the 

 small basket and wanted to get them into the Boston mar- 

 ket, how he would pack the baskets to ship into that 

 market? If there is any carrier for holding the small 

 baskets ? 



MR. SillTH : AVe have had to make a carrier adapted 

 to the truck and the market wagon, and that is one objec- 

 tion to packing that small package out on the farm ; it is a 

 hard package to handle; it is a rolling package, and yet 

 you can fit your Avagon or truck to handle them in very 

 good shape, usually by building up some carriers. 



A I\IEAIBER : I would like to ask Mr. Smith right along 

 that line — he said something about the truck — if he doesn't 

 think there might be some special springs put in the truck 

 that would be a benefit to the fruit grower? 



SIR. SiMITH : There are some very desirable forms 

 made now that can be put right on the body of the tru,ck 

 or wagon. They are built more on the principle of the old- 

 fashioned bed spring and are very desirable indeed. In 

 fact I have seen adaptations to be used where the fruit is^ 

 being taken from the orchard to the packing house. I be- 

 lieve that giving attention to those conveniences is a good 

 thing, and they are on the market. 



MR. RICHARDS: In Marshfield, where I come from, 

 Avhere the Marshall berry is raised, we have now formed 

 the Marshfield Strawberry Association, which is trying to 

 control the Marshall strawberry. The Slarshall strawberry 

 is raised better in Marshfield than almost anywhere else, 

 and there has been a movement to establish a Strawberry 

 Association to enable them to control the market more, but 

 the trouble is with us that all the growers there do not unite. 

 "Not more perhaps than a half or a third of those who send 

 berries to the Boston market, and consequently the thing 



