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Mr. Miles. The Spitzenberg is the highest priced? 



Mr. Castner. It is. Now, take our annual Fruit Fair. 

 There is one thing that you will see, that is the extra fiae 

 looking fruit at that fair. Evervbodv tackles it. anri thpv 

 offer prizes and they get the fruit put up in beautiful shape. 

 I met an eastern man going down the street with a great 

 big armful of Wolf Eivers, and I said, "You got a few, 

 didn't you?" and he said, "They only cost 50 cents apiece' 

 I think he was going to ship them back home somewhere. 

 What is the use of trying to raise apples that you know you 

 can't raise as good as somebody else can? 



Mr. Mann. I would like to ask what the age is of those 

 western trees? 



Mr. Castner. It is hard to tell. I have got trees .'n 

 Hood River 60 or 70 years old, still bearing good crops of 

 fruit, and nobody knows who planted them, but they aro 

 there, Baldwins and Ehode Island Greenings. They have 

 been taken care of and are still bearing heavy crops. I had 

 two trees pack 50 boxes each two years ago. 



A Member. I would like to ask regarding the twenty 

 odd varieties on the market where the bulk of them come 

 from. There are twelve or thirteen red apples and about 

 five yellow. Of those apples, the yellow apples I see are 

 bringing the very highest prices, selling for from nine ta 

 twenty cents ai^iece at retail and some of the red at fifteen, 

 and those apples seem to have absolute, entire possession 

 of our fancy fruit marl-rets with the exception of two grow- 

 ers who can be named in Massachusetts — do the bulk of 

 those come from Hood River? 



Mr. Castner. I couldn't say positively where the 

 bulk did come from. I saw some Mcintosh out at Mr. 

 Marshall's place apparently in as good shape as they were 

 the day I packed them five and a half months before. The 

 stores in AVorcester display them and will use them in pref- 

 erence to the western apples if they are only put on the 

 market in that fine shape and guaranteed. That was not 

 just because I packed them. The man who inspected them 

 this morning told me he took one bruised one out. You 

 couldn't do that with barrels. 



Mr. Pratt. Have those been in cold storage? 



Mr. Castner. Yes. I think they were put in last fall. 



Mr. Dickinson. I would like to ask what are the com- 



