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be able to introduce them by the carload and partial carload 

 lots into European markets. We are studying the conditions 

 under which these products can be sent abroad and we are 

 hopeful of doing something which will be of substantial benefit 

 to the growers of this country so as to enable them to develop 

 these markets for our fruits. 



Mr. Smith : Have you been able to ascertain under what 

 degrees of temperature the fruit should be taken out so as to 

 be able to hold up well in the market ? 



Prof. Powell : The Kieffer pear in coming out of a temper- 

 ature of 33 held up for three or four weeks. This pear coming 

 out at a temperature of 36 will not hold up nearly so long. 

 We found, as I think I said before, that the lower the temper- 

 ature the longer the fruit will keep after it comes out of storage. 

 The Kieffer pear will not hold up longer than three or four 

 weeks when it is taken out at that temperature. At a high 

 temperature it will not hold up as long as that. It will go 

 down quicker. I think one reason why the fruit goes down so 

 quickly out of cold storage, is because we take it out when it 

 is almost dead ripe ; then the fruit goes down quickly. But if 

 the fruit comes out in good, firm condition, and has been kept 

 under proper conditions, it seems to hold up well. There is 

 a good deal to learn in relation to this subject. 



I have a little statement which I would like to refer to, show- 

 ing the result on an export shipment. It is a little statement 

 of the result obtained on a shipment of ten barrels that were 

 sent across by the Government, and which was packed under 

 growers' conditions. They netted the growers back in Virginia 

 $3.57 a barrel. That is, after all the charges had been paid. 



Mr. Hale : While Prof. Powell was talking about the Kieffer 

 pear and of cold storage, I have been thinking what on earth 

 was the use of all that. The Kieft'er pears will keep in a 

 pig-pen. 



Prof. Powell: The Kieffer pear would not keep this year 

 three days in ordinary storage, and it would not keep that long 

 in a pig-pen. Even after it had been in it would not hold up 

 more than three or four weeks at the outside. The season, of 

 course, has a good deal of effect. 



Mr. Cook: I cannot keep them longer than that. If you 

 want to raise Kieffer pears you want to plant them in with the 

 Bartletts. 



