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careful study of the market. All information as to crop 

 conditions throughout the country is obtained early in the 

 season. This is supplemented about harvest time by reports 

 of crop movement and prices on various markets, together 

 with cold storage reports and all other information availa- 

 ble. We receive the market report issued daily by the 

 United States Office of Markets and also the Canadian 

 Telegraphic Report. These we find of great value. With 

 all of this information at hand we are able to form a good 

 idea of crop conditions, and know something what to expect 

 for prices. 



Since it has always been customary for our people to 

 export a large percentage of the crop, we have been particu- 

 larly interested in every bit of information obtainable as to 

 conditions in England. Most everything we knew prior to 

 1913 came to us through the representative of our English 

 receivers. In the fall of 1913, however, it was decided that 

 it would be worth a great deal if our manager could see for 

 himself just how apples were handled on the foreign market. 

 -Accordingly, plans were made for the trip. As I was at 

 that time manager of the association, it Avas my pleasure to 

 make the trip. 



About six hundred barrels of Oxford Bears' apples were 

 on the same steamer with me. Before leaving home, I had 

 seen these apples harvested, packed, and loaded into the 

 cars, so I knew just what they were like. I was now to 

 follow them through the whole process of marketing. I was 

 met in Liverpool by the representative of our English house 

 who had so often visited me at home, and whose guest I was 

 during my stay in England. Under the guidance of this 

 man I was shown the ins and out of the Liverpool. IManehes- 

 tcr, and London markets. 



On the docks in Liverpool I met the same apples I had 

 seen so carefully packed. They were being inspected by the 

 buyers there on the docks, and I had a chance to note in just 

 what shape they arrived. Some few of them I noted were 

 slack on account of faulty coopering. This put me on my 



