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A. In my statement I have mentioned that apples vary in the 

 number of pounds. The Roxbury Russet will evaporate the 

 largest number of pounds of any apple that I have evaporated. 



Mr. Gilbert : What would you state as the smaller and the 

 larger prices ordinarily from year to year in the market — what 

 you sell yourself — talking about your own manufacture? 



A. I can only answer that question in accordance with what 

 I have done in the past. I have never sold them for less than ten 

 cents and sometimes as high as fifteen or seventeen. Of course 

 it depends upon the supply, but from ten to twelve cents is the 

 price that I almost invariably obtain. 



Mr. Gilbert : Or fify to sixty cents a bushel after evapo- 

 rated ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Knowlton : I would like to ask Mr. Keith a question 

 and it is this : whether any effort, so far as he knows, has been 

 made towards packing apples in poimd packages in practically 

 air-tight cartons? I have in mind what the ladies here are all 

 familiar with and that is the packages in which the seeded raisins 

 come to the market from California. They are pressed first into 

 some kind of a mold with sufficient pressure to make them solid, 

 and then wrapped with a wax paper and then the package 

 inclosed in a paper box or paper carton, — you know what I mean. 

 I have seen evaporated apples packed in pound cartons, I don't 

 know but what two, but they were loosely packed and no protec- 

 tion whatever except what the loosely made carton affords. I 

 have in mind this, that packed in that way the product could be 

 kept indefinitely. 



A. It would probably discolor somewhat. When apples are 

 kept over more than one year they get discolored. 



O. Let me ask a question there, isn't that due to the fact that 

 the package containing it is not air-tight? 



A. Well, it may be so, I never have practiced that. It would 

 of course add to the expense of getting them into the market. 

 The cheapest way that I know of is the way that I mentioned, to 

 put them into strong paper bags. These paper bags are filled 

 up so that they are comparatively tight. I think very likely the 

 package that Bro. Knowlton speaks about may be preferable, 

 but it would add to the expense of getting them into the market 



