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was wanted in the Eng-lish market and was catering to it in 

 a measure, by buying the barreled poultry that came into 

 market, unpacking and drying it out in cold storage, and 

 then boxing the unbruised specimens and shipping to 

 England in a cold, dry condition, and so successful had he 

 been that only recently he has received an order for i,ooo,- 

 ooo pounds poultry, to be delivered as soon as he could 

 put it up. 



To get the best price in the English market, boxes of suit- 

 able size to hold one dozen fowls should be used, made after 

 the style of an orange box, with a cross partition in the 

 middle, so that six fowls will be in each compartment; 

 packing them alternately heads and tails. 



What I have said is enough to show you that you 

 have a customer on the other side who will pay you to 

 put up your produce in the way he wants it; otherwise you 

 will have your labor for your pains. The Englishman pays 

 the highest price of any man on earth, providing he gets 

 his goods as he wants them. 



The speaker was asked many questions, showing the 

 lively interest taken in this new question by the fruit 

 growers present. 



Question — Mr. Ives: Will you tell us how the peaches 

 you speak of as selling for two shillings apiece are put up? 



Answer — Mr. Baker: They are put up in baskets simi- 

 lar to your strawberry baskets, four or five, paper wrapped, 

 in a basket, and then packed in crates, as your strawberries 

 are. I think a better package would be one divided into 

 individual sections like your eg^ packages. 



Question — Mr. Innis: In this apple box you speak of, 

 is there a cross section through the middle — in the Tas- 

 mania box? 



Answer: There is a cross section of a half-inch board 

 through the middle, similar to an orange box, while the 

 California box is without such a partition. While the ends 

 are of solid material, the sides are of two veneer slats and 

 there is a space of about a half -inch between for ventilat- 

 ing purposes, as apples and everything else containing the 

 germ of life needs air to breathe. 



