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There is quite a variation. The bushel contains 2,150.42 cubic 

 inches. The box that Mr. Pope used is considerably over a 

 bushel. 



Mr. Pope: Allow me to interrupt you. A strict bushel 

 doesn't make a bushel of apples. 2,150 inches would be a strict 

 bushel and the law obliges us to give more than that. 



Mr. WalIvIngeord : I think the statement was made that this 

 Canadian box held just a bushel. Now the standard box which 

 you use in Boston is 2,592 cubic inches. I have shipped apples 

 to Boston in that box and I have tried it with the barrel, and 

 three of those boxes are a little more than a barrel. And I think 

 the statement was made here that these boxes would pack 

 snugger in a car and therefore a man would get cheaper freight, 

 and they were cheaper to handle. I think this is an error 

 because they don't haul freight by the way it packs in a car but 

 by weight. The box weight is given I think as about 60 pounds, 

 and the barrel which would contain three bushels at 160, — so we 

 pay a little more freight. While on the carting at Boston they 

 charge by the package and the two boxes are charged the same 

 for carting as one barrel. And the commission on the box is 

 a little more in my experience than it is on the barrel because 

 they have more packages to handle. I think before we take any 

 definite action in regard to adopting the standard box and 

 recommending it, we better not get our boxes too large but have 

 one as nearly a bushel as we can. 



Mr. Lincoln : Three will hardly fill a barrel, especially with 

 large apples. This is what they call the California box. And 

 then, in regard to the freight I think the brother is mistaken, or 

 else they don't carry their stufif as they do to our place. If we 

 hire a car, we pay so much for the car and we can put in not to 

 exceed so many thousand pounds. If we exceed that we have 

 to pay extra freight for it. The barrels won't fill the car full 

 enough to weigh what we are allowed to put in the car usually. 

 And if we get in more, why we have to pay extra freight for it. 

 That is the way we ship ours to Boston by car load lots. 



Mr. Wallingeord: I will admit in the car load rate you 

 might possibly get the weight there. But the minimum amount 

 with which you are loading a car is 150 barrels which weigh 

 24,000 pounds. Now if we have more than that we have to pay 

 for it extra. It is true you might possibly get the same freight 



