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tically one-third the amount of fruit selling for more money 

 than the other. Now here is a package that a grocer can 

 offer for sale at his store, and name practically his own price. 

 These people that live in flats in the cities can slide a box of 

 apples like that under the bed, but you can't slide an apple 

 barrel there. I believe the box is coming into use, and I 

 believe it is here already, and wherever it is for sale it is 

 winning the market, and winning the money to the growers, 

 providing they are putting first-class fruit in it. But there 

 are a whole lot of people who have got an idea that because the 

 boxes of apples are selling high, they can put any kind of 

 fruit in them, and some of them are putting poor fruit in 

 them ; but beware of that, don't do it. Don't do that unless 

 the fruit is of the highest class, of the highest quality, and 

 perfect in form and free from blemish of every kind, and 

 when you do that you can make a reputation for it. My 

 brother from Virginia asked us why we didn't go down there 

 and grow good apples and come up here and sell them, and 

 I told him that within twelve miles of this hall there are 

 thousands of acres of as fine land as there is on earth, and 

 I also said to him, you want $60.00 an acre for your Virginia 

 land, and you can buy this for five and ten dollars — plenty 

 of magnificent land that will grow just as good apples as 

 there are in that box on the stage and just as good in quality. 



The following questions were put to Mr. Hale and dis- 

 cussed : 



Mr. Flight: On this transportation subject, as I under- 

 stood you, you said that the railroad companies offered to 

 put in refrigerator cars on the sidings to ship this fruit. Has 

 the Consolidated road any refrigerator cars? 



Mr. Hale: The Consolidated railroad has not any refrig- 

 erator cars, and they would have to arrange with a private 

 car line to do it, and the growers would have to pay for the 

 private cars. 



Mr. Flight : In asking this question, I wanted to find 

 out if they had, because I belong to a growers' association, 

 and we have had to make arrangements with it as to private 



