lOO STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



It is to fix by statute requirements such bounds as to inspire a 

 growing confidence in the uniform quaHty of our products and 

 insure to the careful growers substantial returns for their labors. 



We shall approach this result just in proportion as we protect 

 the buyer and seller by requiring the proper grading of all fruit, 

 as the importance of the uniform package becomes generally 

 appreciated, as the necessity for stimulating the growing of 

 flowers is realized and as we help make our annual exhibitions 

 complete through the largest possible display of the fruits of the 

 orchard, greenhouse and garden. 



Here is legitimate work for this State Pomological Society in 

 addition to and beyond what has heretofore been attempted, and 

 while neglecting nothing in the range of duties already recog- 

 nized, let us reach after the larger grasp possible today and serve 

 our State, our orchardists and our society by helping towards 

 the solution of the vexed problems confronting the individual 

 grower of 1905. 



THE FRUIT MARKET— MARKETING APPLES. 



By E. H. Cook, Vassalboro. 



In marketing apples, perhaps the first thing to consider is the 

 package, and of late years the package has assumed considerable 

 importance. The best possible package for exporting apples is 

 an oak barrel, with round hickory hoops, but most any ordinary 

 flour barrel will do pretty well ; and as we get away from that 

 we get something less desirable all the time. A cooper was at 

 my place perhaps a month ago and trying to find out just how 

 to make a barrel that would please me. "Well," I said, "the 

 nearer you get to the ordinary flour barrel, the nearer you get 

 to something that they will like in Liverpool." They are con- 

 servative people, the English, and we all are somewhat ; but they 

 especially. They have been used to the secondhand barrel, or 

 the ordinary flour barrel, for many years, and they won't get 

 away from it without costing you something for it, as some one 

 said. They will discount the rough soft wood barrel from six- 

 pence to a shilling. 12 to 24 cents, and I have seen it on my 

 account of sales where there were discounts, thev marked them 



