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Bermuda and saw apples shipped down there from Canada^ 

 from Nova Scotia, and the consumption of apples in that 

 land is something enormous, and the population will eat ten 

 times the amount if they can get good fruit. The apples 

 were shipped down in barrels, and I saw one shipment of 

 three hundred barrels taken off a steamer and the barrels 

 opened up, and I wish you could have seen them ! I would- 

 n't give them to pigs on our farm, because they had settled 

 and the barrel was five or six inches slack. If we are going 

 to send them down in those southern countries we should 

 take a great deal of care to pack them right, but if we are 

 going to send good, hard and sound fruit the people will 

 want our apples. The demand seems to me to be unlimited 

 .5n the south and in Europe. Other parts of the world cannot 

 grow them and they want them. It seems to me just simply 

 a question of developing our market, whether we are going 

 to have more planting, or less. 



A Member. The market has been represented as full 

 all the season. I think the price has been lower. 



Mr. Wheeler. I think that is brought about in the way 

 I have explained. They have been packed in barrels, and 

 packed poorly. I don't believe, to tell you frankly, that we 

 could ship our apples to go a thousand miles and have them 

 fit to eat. They may be all right to cook, but we have got 

 to get the quantity of eating apples out of the eastern mar- 

 ket. I think that accounts for the low price. 



President. The time has arrived for the clearing of the 

 hall for this evening, and we must postpone the rest of 

 these questions until tomorrow. It is very important that 

 you be here on time, ten o'clock. 



(Meeting adjourned to 10 a. m., Thursday, March 14) 



