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have kept it up ever since. We flatter ourselves when we get 

 to eating their apples by the side of ours that ours are a good 

 deal better than theirs, but just because theirs are put up better 

 than ours they sell for more money than ours. It seems to me 

 that if we only get at it right that there is some remedy which 

 ■we can apply. I should like mighty well to have Eastern apples 

 sell in New York for just as much money as California apples, 

 to say the least. I think the fruit growers of New York and 

 "the East have the first claim, at any rate on the Eastern markets, 

 and we ought to do what we can to win them and hold them. 



Mr. Lincoln : I think it would be well to refer this to 

 another committee. My idea is the same as Mr. Knowlton's in 

 regard to the box system. All I believe in is to have a standard 

 size, a uniform box. I don't care what it is, only have some- 

 thing that is uniform, a standard, so that everybody will ship in 

 the same size boxes. 



Mr. Wheeler : Bro. Pope wanted to sell some apples and he 

 "vvrote to a commission house in Boston to tell him what he 

 •wanted and they sent him that vegetable box. It is evident 

 that they wanted that kind of a box. It is evident that the 

 people there want that because they can sell it better. If the 

 people want that and are ready and willing to pay for it, prefer 

 apples shipped in that vegetable box, it seems to me that is the 

 Tdox we want to ship apples in and is the one that we should 

 ■endorse here today. 



Prof. MuNSON : I would move to refer back to the same 

 •committee the question of the size of packages to be adopted, 

 and further that this committee be instructed to, if possible, 

 agree with representatives of other New England and New York 

 associations as to the size of box to be adopted by all societies 

 and report at the next meeting. 



[Professor ^Munson's motion was given a passage. — Secre- 

 tary.] 



