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HONESTY. 

 Let us awa}' with all stuffings and facings, with all deceptive 

 coverings, with all undersize packages, with the packing of all green, 

 half-grown, knarly and worm-eaten fruit in any kind of packages. 

 If we must pack it, put it on top where it will tell its own story. 

 Let us do this, and we shall find it will pay in money, pay in the 

 plaudits we shall win from all men and in our own self-respect and 

 integrity of soul. I should say here, and I cheerfull3' do sa}', that 

 I believe that the California fruit packers are generally far less open 

 to criticism in this matter of straight packing than are the majority 

 of Eastern growers. You cannot afford to pay freight on trash two 

 or three thousand miles. Yet there is some room for improvement in 

 the selection and grading of fruits from this pre-eminent horticul- 

 tural State. It cannot be too often or too earnestly impressed upon 

 fruit men everywhere that to secure the best results the most scru- 

 pulous pains must be taken not only in growing fruit properl}^ but 

 in careful handling, thorough grading and unflinching honesty in 

 packing. The man with a high standard, well worked up to, is the 

 man who will come out best in the race. — Parker Earle, at Ameri- 

 can Horticultural Society. 



COLD STORAGE. 

 Information on cold storage was asked of the eastern members, 

 and Parker Earle was asked to respond. He stated that it had been 

 a common impression that after fruits of any kind had been subjected 

 to the cold — tender ones especiall}- — that their keeping qualities 

 were nearly destroyed and they decayed soon in a warm climate. 

 This was negatived by his own experience, as he found that fruit 

 could be sent more safely after being cooled down to a low tempera- 

 ture than when not so treated. He used the car itself as a cooling 

 place and the fruit was loaded directly from the field. He found 

 that this held true not only for strawberries but for raspberries. 

 When they were cooled below the dew point, moisture collected upon 

 the fruit, but he found that it did not essentially injure the fruit, as 

 the moisture soon evaporated. A refrigerator car simply holds the 

 fruit in obeyance, so that organic action is held back for a time. 



