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MB. SANDERS: The question I am often asked by 

 apple growers np in JMaine, New Hampshire and sometimes 

 Yerraoiit, is whether or not it is practicable and advisable 

 to try to ship lower grades of apples in bulk and dispose 

 of them that way, especially in big years, that is, ship them 

 loose in box ears, for example, in order to cut down the ex- 

 penses of marketing so there will be a little margin left for 

 the grower? 



ME. SIMITH: 1 refer that back to the President. 



THE CHAIRMAN: We do not ship ours that way. The 

 *]nestion is raised whether it is profitable under any condi- 

 tions to ship apples in bulk by car load lots or by boat, in 

 order to cut down the expense. I should hope that most Ol 

 lis Avere not growing fruit that would be handled in that 

 v'ay. Some of our neighbors do, of course. 



A ]\IE]\IBER: In New York State, where apples are 

 produced on a much larger scale than in Massachusetts. 

 »vhere men have two hundred and fifty or three hundred 

 acres of fruit, they often have low grade fruit that should 

 not be put in barrels and that should be distributed to the 

 eonsumer at the loM'est possible cost, which increases con- 

 Mimption and establishes the habit of eating fruit. In order 

 to get that on the market at the lowest price, so it can be 

 sold to the wagon peddler or push-cart man, and often to 

 ihe small grocer at the lowest possible cost and return a 

 ]>rofit to the grower, a great quantity of fruit is handled 

 that way. 



A vast quantity of fruit is put in cars in bulk and us- 

 ually sells for seventy-five cents to one dollar and fifty cents 

 m- one dollar and sevent.v-five cents per barrel and some- 

 times higher, and in that way we place a great quantity of 

 fruit in the hands of the consumer, or at least the peddler, 

 sit very low cost. This year we have an illustration of an 

 economic condition that often occurs. The buyers in the 

 -orchard often use fruit that has not cost much money to 

 l)ear the market down. When they pay a high price for 

 the fruit, they cannot do this, they put the expensive fruit 



