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would stay on the farms. Many farmers wonder why the boys 

 and girls don't stay on the farms. Why, there is a good many 

 of our farms that ain't fit for white men or women to live on. 

 That is why they don't stay on the farms. I know farmers who 

 have been working all their lifetime to put a sum of money in 

 the savings bank and they have been doing that for sixty-five or 

 seventy years. Well, the result is they have got a little nest in 

 the savings bank, but the buildings have run down, the bushes 

 have grown up in the fields, and no man can afford to go onto 

 the farm and live. But you plant an orchard on your farm and 

 I tell you the boys ain't going away. I have a boy, my youngest 

 son, at home — took me some time to get him into this religion 

 I have got, but now he has got so he is ready to drive the harrow. 

 He don't object to seven or eight hundred dollars along in the 

 spring — kind of a good thing — about equal to your potatoes. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FRUIT PACKAGES. 

 By E. L. Lincoln, Wayne. 



[Mr. Lincoln had several boxes of different sizes to illustrate 

 his discussion of the apple box. — Secretary.] 



As I came into the hall I picked up a slip of paper giving ship- 

 ments of apples, — and I note that it is all in barrels, — the unit 

 seems to be the barrel. 



This is a subject that is being discussed by many fruit growers 

 at the present time. It is a question, whether the box or barrel 

 makes the better package for apples and pears. But in my 

 opinion, I should prefer the box for fancy fruit, the barrel for 

 common or choice, and the box car to supply the canning 

 factories. 



Apples of a tender variety, such as are generally used for 

 eating and table use should be packed in boxes. The Northern 

 Spy, Yellow Bellfiower, and other varieties which I could 

 mention, do not want to be jammed in a barrel, but ought to be 

 packed as carefully, and in as attractive a form, as the orange 

 or peach. Take an orange and a Maine apple and roll them 

 across the floor, each with the same usage, and the orange will 

 come out in better condition, but still there is the most care taken 

 in packing it. 



