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A Member: I find in my experience that I can sell 

 fruit for $1.50 per barrel quicker than I can for $3.00. Of 

 course, I am close to a market, but I find my customers will 

 take seconds at $1.50 quicker than thev will take the best 

 ones. 



Vice-President Drew : Do you believe that a system 

 of co-operation would really tend to higher prices or to 

 maintain good prices? 



Mr. Tenny : I surely do. Then in our own localities in- 

 stead O'f selling small lots, or instead of selling to one man, 

 and our neighbors selling to another man, and the next man 

 selling to still another man, and all selling at as many dif- 

 ferent prices, if twelve, or fifteen, or twenty could get to- 

 gether and agree on a standard of pack, and in that wa\- get 

 from twenty-five to thirty cars of good fruit packed uniformly 

 and honestly, with the brand on the packages of that pack, so 

 as to show just where it came froiu, we could go into a mar- 

 ket and we could get more for our fruit because it would be 

 packed uniformly. I know that we could get a little more 

 on the average than the farmers are getting at the present 

 time. If a certain body of farmers got the reputation of 

 packing good year after year, I think that the average price 

 would be pretty sure to be raised. 



Vice-President Drew : Mr. Tenny, in connectio'n 

 with the subject of pruning of your apple trees, are the 

 growers up in your section practicing summer pruning to 

 .any extent? 



Mr. Tenny : They are not doing any summer pruning 

 so far as I know. 



Vice-President Drew : Do the}- do any thinning of 

 the fruit? 



Mr. Tenny : Yes. I think I mentioned that. You will 

 get what I said on thinning in your report. We are finding 

 this very successful. We are going over our entire trees. 

 Some of our best growers are taking a pretty good propor- 

 tion oif the fruit in thinning. Where there are two or three ap- 



