142 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



You do not pack your apples so that they will run uniform, 

 and the buyer has not an}- confidence in the goods. 



A Member : You think it would be advisable all over 

 the east to have associations of some description to market 

 the fruit? 



Mr. Castner: I think it would. We tried individual 

 packing in the Hood River country, but we found it did not 

 pay. There were a number of growers who would not join 

 the association. They got together and talked of forming 

 an asso'oiation among themselves, but nothing came of it 

 then. They tried it for five or six years, and found it did 

 not pay. 



A Member: I would hke to ask the speaker if when 

 you pick your fruit you pick or grade it at that time for 

 color ? 



Mr. Castner: We make two pickings. We pick for 

 color and size, too. We do not pick so much for color as 

 for size and general appearance. Take it on the Spitzen- 

 berg, and the first picking is for color, and for size, too. 



A Member: Will an apple color up after it is picked? 



Mr. Castner : To some extent, it will. 



Mr. Ives : I was interested in what Mr. Castner said 

 about summer pruning, but it seems to me that summer 

 pruning would be impracticable here where we have trees 

 that are thirty years old, and lots of them twenty and twen- 

 ty-five feet up in the air. I would like to ask him how it 

 would work under such conditions. 



Mr. Castner: Well, with us none of our trees are 

 more than twelve or fifteen feet high. 



Mr. Ives : Yon do not tear off much fruit in doing 

 yoiir summer pruning then? 



Mr. Castner: No, we do not. 'I think it would be 

 a good thing if a good deal of the fruit was knocked off. 

 1>ut there is no need of knocking off much of it b\' the prac- 

 tice of summer pruning. 



Mr. Ives : You recommend that after we have done 



