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at the present time. I leave these thoughts with you for vour 

 earnest consideration. 



I thank }ou for your attention. 



Discussion. 



A ^lEMiiiiR: Why is the bulge indispensable? 



Prof. Wilson: The bulge acts as a spring to -take up 

 any slack in transportation, that is, with the proper bulge, a 

 box of apples starting on the Pacific Coast can be brought 

 clear across the continent, shipped to England, and still, v;hen 

 it gets to England, be tight, because if there is any slack, that 

 spring will take it up. 



A AIember : I would like to inquire right here, has there 

 been any estimate made of how much die shrinkage will be ? 



Prof. Wilson : I know of none. x\ll we do know is 

 this, that a bulge of an inch and a quarter or an inch and a 

 half has given us, after shipment to the market, a very fine 

 box, tight and all right. I can't answer that question any 

 further. 



I think everyone of you will agree that that is a neat 

 package (pointing to box on the stage) that those apples on the 

 market will be attractive. And, by the way, I wish some of 

 you would go down to the markets and see the barreled apples 

 as they are rolled out onto a table to sell. I think all of us 

 would be surprised, and some of us wdio saw them packed 

 would swear up and dowai and all around, that they were not 

 the same apples after they got to the market. If you don't 

 believe that go right to the market and see it yourself. It 

 doesn't look right, it has a bad reputation. 



Now a box of apples wdiich comes from the West has a 

 fine reputation. Why couldn't you men in Connecticut have 

 such a reputation for grading and packing apples, not only in 

 a box. but in a barrel, so that whenever your apples come on to 

 the market, Connecticut fruit will mean quality, and you can 

 have that reputation just as well as you can have any other 

 reputation. 



