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duced, tlierefore we find few of the growers hereabouts taking 

 advantage of cold storage facihties to await the advance in 

 markets which are usually a part of the progress of every year's 

 business, and we regret to state that those who do avail them- 

 selves of the operations of up-to-date cold storage service, 

 usually send a grade of goods for which there is no demand 

 whatever, neither will there be at any time. Our experience 

 with apples is particularly true in this respect. 



I cannot but recite the incident of a friend of ours who 

 came to make arrangements for the storing of two hundred 

 barrels of fine Baldwin apples. The arrangements being com- 

 pleted the gentleman went on his way rejoicing and, in the 

 natural course of exents, a car of apples was received from our 

 good friend. Upon opening and inspecting same, we found 

 that he had shipped us a car of windfalls for cold storage 

 purposes. We were much in doubt as to whether this particu- 

 lar shipment was meant for cold storage or the cider mill. 

 Upon getting into communication with him, we found that he 

 really meant to store these goods. We, of course, had no other 

 alternate but to follow out his instructions, which we did. The 

 result was — total loss, together with incidental expenses in 

 regard to the shipping, handling and packing of same. 



We find that the customers of our house have had the 

 greatest success and made the most money from goods w^hich 

 they carry in cold storage b}- making a practice to put away 

 nothing but the finest. It is needless for me to call your atten- 

 tion to the fact that there is ahvays an open market for fine 

 goods, no matter what those goods might be. This is true of 

 apples, peaches, pears, plums, etc., provided, of course, they are 

 disposed of in seasonable time. 



The ])each industry hereabouts is one in which we have 

 become very much interested. We have had the satisfaction 

 of carrying several thousand baskets of peaches last year in 

 our house for different growers during the periods when the 

 heavy flow was on. You are all, of course, well aware, that 

 there is a period throughout the different harvest sea.sons when 

 the market gets into that stagnant state wdiich we call 

 "glutted." Goods arriving upon a market in that condition, 

 have got to be sacrificed. A number of the leading growers 



