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foreman. Each crew is provided with sorting tray, barrel 

 press, baskets, stencils, and other things necessary for pack- 

 ing. In addition to the regular stenciling, consisting of 

 variety, grade, and Association name, each crew has a num- 

 ber of its own to go on the barrels. This is for the purpose 

 of identification in case any fault is found with the barrel. 

 After stenciling what is to be the face end of the barrel, it 

 is' turned over and before the i)ulp-head is put in one of our 

 barrel labels — such as you see here — is placed in face down. 



Qur system of loading cars for shipment is as follows: — 

 "We do not pool our varieties and grades for the season, but 

 lather on each sale. By this I mean that every grower 

 receives the same price for number one Bjddwin. number 

 two Greenings, or whatever the grade may be. Of course it 

 happens under this arrangement that one man may receive 

 a different price for apples of a certain grade than his neigh- 

 bor Avhose apples go to another sale. To counteract what- 

 ever difference there may be, we try to be as fair as possible, 

 dividing up the shipments, and plan never to have all one 

 man's apples on a single sale, but to split them up. Perhaps 

 T can best illustrate this point by showing how it has worked 

 out this present season. 



Early in the year, before anyone could tell what turn 

 the foreign market would take, Ave sold several cars at very 

 good prices F. 0. B. shipping point. As it happened, apples 

 exported began to bring unprecedented prices, we wished 

 that we had shipped everything we had. Plowever. the 

 orders taken earl}^ had to be filled, so to average things we 

 loaded a certain part of each member's apples in export cars 

 and a certain part in those cars sold for a cash price. 



I am going to pass around for j'our inspection several 

 of the cards we use in keeping a record of shipments. For 

 every car shipped one of these cards is made out. These 

 are copies of actual records in our office. We find them very 

 convenient in keeping our accounts correctly. A proper 

 <jnd well ordered system of accounting is very essential to 

 the success of any business, and is particularly desirable i'' 



