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1 think the}- may when they see it is to their advantage in a 

 ni()netar\- \\a\-. 



AIr. Berry : I think the apples in boxes come out much 

 better. With the barrels you can never tell what process is 

 going on inside; they come in an air-tight condition and it 

 takes so long to remove the orchard heat and get the barrel to 

 the proper temperature and all the while you are working in 

 the dark, while with a box the conditions are entirely different. 

 Some think 29 is an extremely low temperature to carry apples 

 at. I am quite sure that most of the gentlemen here don't 

 know that it takes nearly three weeks to get the orchard heat 

 remo\ed from an air-tight package. You must not imagine 

 that apples need be kept at that temperature after that heat 

 is remoxed. 



AIr. Patch : Isn't it true that in almost every ca.se. 

 whether with ap])les or eggs or butter or wdiat not. if it is put 

 in in good condition it comes out in the same condition? 



Mr. Berry : There is no question at all regarding that. 

 If a package is put in absolutely perfect it will come out abso- 

 lutely perfect. We have carried apples in our cold storage two 

 }ears and kept them absolutely sound. 



Mr. Woody: You don't want to press the apples too 

 nmch. If the fruit is a little large we separate the apples with 

 paper, as vou Avould eggs. In regard to the package, too. if 

 you want to purchase all of one kind, then perhaps the barrel is 

 all right, but if you want two or three different kinds you don't 

 have to spend so much money to get the different varieties by 

 ])urchasing the boxes as barrels, but it has nothing to do with 

 the apple commercially. 



]\Ir. Fenn : Four years ago I had a very nice crop of 

 Greenings and invested in 100 boxes. I never sold a box of 

 apples that year and haven't Ijeen able to do so since, and I 

 have sold the boxes to Professor Gulley for his use. The dif- 

 ficult v is the box is too expensive. We pay 25 cents for 

 .second hand barrels and from 35 to 40 for new ones. 



President Eddy : Question 9 is called for and we will 

 pass on to that: "What should be done with No. 2 apples?" 



