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car lines, and I thought if we could get over that we would 

 like to do it. 



]\Ir. Hale: There is a bill in congress to prohibit any 

 railroad in the United States from using private car lines, 

 private cars on their lines. They must furnish their own 

 cars. If that bill passes under present conditions, we shall be 

 worse of¥ temporarily, as the Consolidated railroad has no 

 refrigerator cars. In the transportation of peaches in the 

 state of Connecticut, we will need one hundred refrigerator 

 cars in the service this summer. Now the Consolidated rail- 

 road hasn't them, and if congress prohibits them from using 

 private car lines, they have got to buy some, and if they only 

 use them in the five or six weeks' season for peaches, and let 

 them lie idle during the rest of the year, it is a question 

 whether they may not tax the rent onto us for the whole 52 

 weeks. 



Following Mr. Hale's very interesting and suggestive 

 address, President Gulley introduced Mr. S. L. Lupton, who 

 gave another intensely practical talk, taking for his subject, 

 "Hints on Selling Our Fruit Crops to Better Advantage." 



Hints on Selling Our Fruit Crops to Better 

 Advantage. 



By S. L. LuPTON, Winchester, Virginia. 



Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen : Like most every 

 other man in this country I have a hobby, and that hobby 

 is fruit packages and packing. My theory is that packing 

 fruit is a question of morals rather than a question of edu- 

 cation. And if I was asked where to go to get the best infor- 

 mation about packing fruit, I should say go to church. If 

 your heart's right, you will put up an honest package ; if it 

 isn't, you won't. The matter of fruit packages, I think, in 

 this eastern country is very little understood. I have got an 

 object lesson here for you to-day, and an apology to make. 

 I will give you the object lesson first, and then say what I 

 have to say about an organization among fruit growers with 



