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the whole thing will be brought out. There was a commit- 

 tee appointed last year at our conference to report. You _ 

 have heard the report today, and I think the members of" 

 that committee will have something further to say. f^ 



Mr. Barber. I should like to ask where that westerEy^. 

 system is used, do they transport the apples to a given point,;,' 

 that is to say, do the packers go to the orchard and pack* 

 and then go ten miles to another, or are the apples trans- 

 ported? ; , ^, 



Mr, Castner. In some cases, especially with small ?> 

 growers, who haven't packing houses of their own, there is 

 a large warehouse and they are taken there and packed ; 

 but most of the growers have packing houses of their own 

 and a crew of, say, four packers and one inspector or fore- 

 man who goes out with each crew. They are packed right on 

 the premises. 



Mr, Barber. I wanted to know whether they had to be 

 transported before they are packed? 



Mr. Castner. To help some out who haven't packing 

 houses, the association has a large store house and packs 

 them there. 



Mr. Barber. If the apples are transported one mile or- 

 five miles they will be bruised so that they are damaged ap- 

 ples. 



Mr Castner. Yes. .There is. always more or less loss in 

 transporting apples any distance more than to be packed on 

 your own premises. I have noticed that when they are 

 brought into the warehouse to be packed the loss would be 

 probably one-fifth, mostly from bruises. If they are put 

 loose into a box and covered up, to keep the apples tight, 

 they will have bruises on them, and unless they are hauled 

 on springs there will be more bruises. We require every- 

 thing to be hauled on springs. Another thing in our hand- 

 ling apples : I do all my sorting right in the orchard. It 

 saves one handling. I would rather do that and keep the 

 culls out and save one handling and make less bruising. 

 Every time an apple is handled there is some loss, so we try- 

 to handle them as small a number of times as we can. 



President. I would like to ask if you have rain storms. 



Mr. Castner. Well, in the eighteen years I have been , 

 there, we never had but one rainstorm interfere with our 

 packing, and that was only two days. 



