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the retailers will not give a higher price because apples are in a 

 box unless they are better apples. True, a small package is 

 desirable and can be handled to private trade who would not 

 want to buy a barrel/' 



I move you that this Society recommend the adoption of a 

 Maine standard apple box of the capacity of one bushel — the 

 box to be adopted to be the California style which is, inside 

 dimensions, length 21 inches, depth 11 inches, width 10 inches. 



Mr. PoPE: I have been shipping apples in vegetable boxes. 

 I corresponded with parties in Boston who were going to sell 

 my apples and asked them to send me an empty box — a package 

 which would suit them to sell apples in. They sent me the 

 vegetable box, 18 inches square and 8 inches deep, inside 

 measure. Everybody in that section knows that those boxes 

 contain just a bushel. And they prefer them on that account, 

 I suppose, to have them come in these vegetable boxes. I have 

 shipped wholly in these. I will say while I am up that I 

 corresponded with parties who were agents for Pritchard & Co. 

 They discouraged shipping in boxes and said it was no use to 

 think of shipping apples in boxes to the English market, the 

 foreign markets, unless we propose to sort them to size, four 

 tiers or five tiers, and wrap them in tissue paper, and they 

 thought that until we were ready to do that we better let the 

 boxes alone. That is the way the California people do. They 

 all have to be sorted to size, so many tiers deep, and wrapped in 

 tissue paper. It would be only our fancy eating apples that we 

 would think of selling in that way. 



Mr. Lincoln : It is not so much what kind of a box we 

 adopt, but to have a standard size of some kind, so that the 

 commission men in Boston will know what they are selling. 

 You give them a standard size box and they will call for boxes, 

 that is where it is. There isn't any unit, there isn't any standard, 

 so they can make the buyers believe what they are getting, and 

 just as soon as you get a uniform box, then for fancy fruit the 

 barrel will be done away with. 



Mr. Wallingford : I have reckoned the cubic inches in each 

 of the four sizes suggested. In the first box (Jones) there are 

 2,335 cubic inches ; in the second box, the Canadian box, 2,268 

 cubic inches; in the third box, the California box, 2,310 cubic 

 inches, while in the standard box which Mr. Pope used, which 

 is the vegetable box of Boston, there are 2,592 cubic inches. 



