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a good many last year used what we call lime casks — they were 

 not exactly that but made after that style, of soft wood. Well, 

 the apples sold for twenty-five to thirty cents less per barrel. 

 Now this year barrels were high. 40, 42, 45 cents my way, and 

 I have been shipping in boxes to the Boston market, — half barrel 

 boxes. Nothing that I have sent yet has sold for less than $1.25 

 a box and from that to $2.50 a box. Now some one was asked 

 the question here this afternoon if he was willing to have his 

 apples examined, and he said "no," they might examine the other 

 fellow's but he didn't want them to his. Well, now, they can 

 examine mine. That is just what I would like to have them do. 

 Pack nothing but No. i apples. It costs just as much for boxes 

 for your poor apples, freight is the same, commission the same, — 

 and the profits nothing. Keep them to home, feed them to your 

 stock, give them to your poor neighbors, — do anything but put 

 them on the market, and ship No. i apples, extra No. i apples, 

 and I believe there is no business on the farm that would pay 

 like orcharding. 



By Secretary KnowlTon. 



I am very glad indeed to have so much brought out upon this 

 subject. Every now and then gatherings in the State are inter- 

 ested in booming some special interest, the game interest, and 

 the dairy interest, and so on. Well, now, it seemed to me that 

 it was entirely proper for us here today at this meeting to try 

 and boom the orchard interests of the State, and I am very glad 

 indeed that the discussion here has taken the shape that it has. 

 It is just what I hoped. 



I was very glad indeed to hear what Mr. Gould told us about 

 the orchards and the fruit in the far West and the Southwest. 

 You may ask the reason why. The reason is this, that while 

 we may not generally recognize the fact, yet the fruit grown 

 there is competing with the fruit which we grow here in Maine, 

 and strange to say, when it has come to fancy fruit for the last 

 three or four years I think I am safe in saying that in the New 

 York markets the fruit grown on the Pacific coast and down in 

 Virginia and that region has sold for more money than the fruit 

 sfrown in New York state. That mav be too broad a statement 



