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1 might .^ay in this connection, that a large grower in 

 Grand Junction, Colorado, has gotten up a grader for grading 

 apples according to size this year, and that grader works so 

 that apparently there is no bruise on the fruit. But I want to 

 see it tried out a few more years before I say we can use a 

 grader. I don't think we want to use it for apples. 



A Member : Where can those boxes be had ? 



Prof. Wilson : You can get them of two or three 

 dealers. I think this particular box came from Mulqueeny 

 Bros, of Buffalo, New York. Coles & Co. of New York 

 make them, and there is also a firm of Bacon Bros, in New 

 York State who make a box. You can get them of two or 

 three firms. 



Mr. Mansfield: I would like to inquire if anybody has 

 used the half-bushel basket? It seems to me that it is a very 

 desirable package in many ways, a very convenient package 

 for the wholesaler to have, and a convenient basket in the 

 orchard. I would like to inquire who has used it? 



A Member: I would say I got some of those baskets 

 very cheap from the South, and they are pretty handy, but 

 they bruise the apples twisting around, and they are not sat- 

 isfactory at all. 



President Rogers : Any more questions on this packing 

 of apples? 



Mr. Underwood: I would like to inquire if anybody 

 knows about this box business? I think I mentioned yester- 

 day, there are two opinions about these box apples. A dealer 

 in Springfield yesterday morning told me to pack in a barrsl 

 by all means. He said he had some western apples from 

 Washington that had been sampled a little and a few of them 

 cut open. He unpacked and took the covers off from six 

 boxes and put them into two barrels, and he sold these two 

 barrels to a Springfield dealer last week for $6.00 a barrel. 

 A (lay or two after that he came in and was perfectly satisfied. 

 but he could not sell those apples all boxed up and wrapped 



