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sociatiun, and is guidetl by the quantities stored ; the industry 

 being practically new we try to invite as much custom in that 

 particular line as possible. 



.V Member : How small a shipment of apples will you 

 accept ? 



Mr. Berry : Anything from one barrel to ten thousand 

 barrels. 



A Member : About peaches, some say that cold storage 

 spoils the flavor and hurts the sale of the fruit when they come 

 out of storage. Is that true? And how about the peaches 

 sweating ? 



Mr. Berry : That is also a leading cjuestion. If the fruit 

 is removed from the cold storage a sufficient length of time 

 before placing on the market there will be no trouble on the 

 score of sweating, say from 12 to 20 hours. 



A Member : Does it hurt the taste of the peach? 



Mr. Berry : After a certain length of time I should say 

 it would. 



A Member: Have you had any experience with grapes? 



Mr. Berry : Yes, all the small fruits we have carried for 

 a reasonable length of time; there is only a limited season that 

 you can carry them, however; and that is through the glutted 

 season ; after that is past there is no market for them. 



A Member: How late can you keep pears? 



Mr. Berry : My experience with the pear has been that 

 the average pear grower would like to dispose of his pears as 

 soon as they are picked, Imt they can be stored successfully 

 quite a long time. 



Pre.sident Eddy : We will now take up the List of 

 Questions on the program and as numljer 14, "Who has had 

 experience with boxing apples?" has been asked for, we will 

 call upon Mr. Patch of Boston to answer that. 



Mr. Patch : Our boxes of apples come largely from 

 Idaho and Oregon, some containing 150 and some 112, and 

 some as low as 72. all wrapped in paper, and every apple as 

 perfect as it is possil)le for an apple to be. The call for boxed 

 apples this year has probably quadrupled that of any other 

 previous year. The boxed apple has come to stay ; it is a 



