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lie cairt bear to see an ai)i)Ie left at home. A man eame in- 

 to our offiee while the Apple Inspeetor was there and we 

 talked over his cro{) whi<'li was saleable for ^2.00 a barrel. 

 There were 1,000 ban-els at -1^2.00 a barrel. lie was offered 

 $2.25 for them if he would sort them and j>'rade them a little 

 closer. lie would i-ather take the $2.00 and let them all go. 

 We sat down and did a little figuring. We figured suppos- 

 ing he threw out 20 i)ei'('ent of those apples which would 

 be 200 bai-rels and have 800 left at .+2.25. which would l>e 

 $1800. That leaves $200 less than he got for the 1,000 l)ar- 

 rels at $2.00. He is $200 short but he saved 200 'oarrels at 

 -iOc, that is $80 of his $200: he has 200 barrels of api)les at 

 ;^0(- or 40c for cider. He didn't have the expense of pack- 

 ing and heading those l)arrels which would be 15c per bar- 

 ]-(d more, so he would have actually received as much for his 

 800 barrels as he did f(u- his 1000. He would have more 

 money in his pocket if instead of the 1,000 barrels he had let 

 800 barrels go, which would have helped the market, but 

 instead of that he was so absolutely constitutionally 

 opposed to having any apples left on the place he would 

 i-ather sell them for less money and have the man take them 

 off. That is the inborn, ingrained construction of frud 

 growers. That is one objection they make to this co-opera- 

 tive system. A man after the packers liave gone some- 

 times has about 15 or 20 barrels of apples left. One man 

 in particular was asked why he didn't sell them and he 

 said he could not. He was told if they were perfectly- 

 good apples he coidd sell them, but he said that nobody 

 would buy them like that, but if they were put in with tlu' 

 others they would be all right; absolutely honest in his belief 

 that those apples ought to have been sold although he could 

 not sell them on their own merits. • 



Now. I think it really reduces the cost of packing. It 

 solves the packing law. That is to say, this Exchange has 

 had no trouble with the packing law. They are not afraid 

 of it at all. Tliey just as soon stencil their apples. They 

 do not (|uestion the law at all. It solves the apple packing 



