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in eold storage; then the farmer will flood the market for 

 several months with a poor grade of apples, which cuts 

 down the selling season for the high quality apples and 

 creates market conditions such as we have at present. There 

 is an unusual amount of good fruit in storage now and two 

 or three months of the selling season has been occupied by 

 this poor fruit which has cut ddwn the price that will bt; 

 realized on the better fruit ; that condition is largely 

 obviated, both for the grower, the consumer and the mid- 

 dleman, by putting more fruit on the market early in the 

 season in bulk cars. 



A :\IEMBER: I want to offer a suggestion that J. H. 

 Rale, of Seymour. Ct.. has adopted; he makes a point of 

 leaving his apples until they are ripe, and the year I was 

 there we had a heavy thunder shower and there were a 

 good many perfect apples on the ground and iie simply went 

 to Ansonia, and New ttaven and Waterbury and had signs 

 ])rinted in different languages that the people could speak 

 and read, and he had no trouble at all in having anywhere 

 from ten to fifteen peddlers come up there and take all the 

 iipples their wagons could hold comfortably, and sometimes 

 more, at fifty cents a bushel, good fruit for immediate con- 

 sumption. He realized fifty cents a bushel for that fruit 

 and they took it right out of the orchard so that it difhi't 

 cost him much to handle it. 



THE CHAIRMAN: 'We vill now take up the question 

 oi' Marketing the Eruit from the Standpoint of the Con- 

 sumer, and we are fortunate in having ^Irs. J. J. StorroAV 

 with us this morning, who is not only a consumer but a 

 producer, and who will address us on this subject. 



