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with all due respect to Air. Hale, I don't believe that any of 

 lis, — I will put it this way, I haven't seen any better Baldwins 

 this year than Mr. Hale's Baldwins, and put up in boxes they 

 are certainly fine. 



So I say the Baldwins might ccn^e in either a barrel or a 

 box. Then we might mention also Rhode Island Greenings. 

 Possibly the Greening would pack well in a box. But, fruit 

 growers of the East, let me say this, and I appeal to you 

 strongly, when you are beginning to put apples in a box, for 

 the reputation of our fruit here' in the East, do not put such 

 varieties as the Ben Davis into a box. I don't believe that is 

 an}- place for it. (Applause.) In the first place, ycu all know 

 you ought not to be growing Ben Davis anyway, and in tb.e 

 second place, don't put it in a box, and I might say some of our 

 best growers in New York state, the largest growers, put the 

 Gano and Ben Davis in boxes this fall, and that is going to 

 give New York apples a bad reputation. I say, if we are going 

 to begin this box packing, let us begin right, put the right va- 

 rieties in and then put up a good pack. (Applause.) 



Now right here I want to correct an opinion that seems 

 to me is an erroneous opinion, in regard to the boxing of 

 apples. Some of the growers seem to think that in order to 

 put up a box apple it is necessary to pick out from the run of 

 an average all fine specimens, thus depreciating the rest that 

 they put in the barrel. Such is not the case. To be sure, box 

 fruit ought to be first class, but, in the case of a box of fruit, 

 Igraded as to size, small, medium and large, the small being 

 put in a box by themselves, the medium by themselves and the 

 large by themselves ; hence, if our fruit is first grade, it is going 

 to fail in one of those sizes, and the small size is no less valua- 

 ble than the larger sizes. If we pack our best varieties in a 

 box, then we would put into that box the run of the average, 

 graded on a basis of size, the box and the pack adapted to that 

 size. 



Now the purpose, as I said before, of my little talk this 

 afternoon, is to show you methods of packing apples, so T will 

 get right at that immediately. In order that you might have 



