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if you had a carload of these and give the weight as you would 

 on the barrels. 



Mr. Morse; : I would like to ask if they realize how the 

 barrels are. I didn't until this fall. I bought 300 old barrels 

 and before selling our apples I thought it was worth while to 

 know how much they held and I took some yellow-eyed beans 

 and put in even full and shook them down so as to be sure of 

 what I was doing. It took three quarts more to fill one barrel, 

 six quarts for another and 14 quarts for another. Now you can 

 see that there is about as much variation in dififerent barrels as 

 there is in boxes. 



The small barrel was a new barrel, had a standard head. I 

 tried it with a Washburn & Crosby Gold Medal flour barrel and 

 that held three quarts mor^ than the new barrel, and I tried it 

 with two or three other kinds and they varied from 3 quarts 

 up to 14. I may say right here that I put my old barrels off in 

 the chamber and bought new ones. 



Mr. Craig : In figuring the Canadian box — comparing that 

 with the one that Mr. Pope used, the vegetable box, and you 

 would be giving away every eighth box of apples. I had the 

 pleasure of attending a number of fruit meetings last winter and 

 this same question was discussed, and I understand that Ontario 

 and Quebec and British Columbia have all adopted this size of 

 box that you have mentioned — 10x11x21 isn't it? 



Mr. Pope : It seems that if this Society is to adopt any partic- 

 ular size that we must confer with the other states and have all 

 New England and New York and all the eastern part of this 

 country adopt the same size, or else there will still be this same 

 trouble when our boxes get to Boston, if Massachusetts people 

 have one bushel box, Maine another, Vermont another, New 

 Hampshire perhaps still a different one. We are not over- 

 coming this trouble at all. That is why they call for this 

 vegetable box with fruit in it — they all know what that bushel 

 box is, they are satisfied to pay the price if we sell them one of 

 those boxes. Until we can all agree through the Eastern States 

 on one size, we better not adopt in the State of Maine any partic- 

 ular size, — that is the way I look at it — so as to have uniformity 

 through the eastern part of the country. 



Mr. Knoweton : This matter of an apple box has been under 

 discussion by the Society for four or five or six years more or 

 less, and no conclusion whatever has been reached. Well, it has 



