i62 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Hale: I think it would be found that from twenty to 

 thirty orchardists would send all there was during September 

 and October each year, and there might be a good many more 

 than that. I am sure there is a desire on the part of our Con- 

 necticut growers to reach that market. We are growing 

 peaches here such as you never saw before, and we are going 

 to ship some of them over there. I didn't want you or anybody 

 here to run a\vay with the idea that it couldn't be done. 



Mr. Foster: I would be willing to say to you people to-day 

 that our firm will contribute a goodly portion of the expense 

 of carrying on an investigation of that kind if we can in any way 

 get the steamship companies to cooperate so that it will not 

 involve too much delay. This is not new. The Californians 

 have tried it. They have shipped them to the other side without 

 success. Of course they have had the journey of seven days 

 across the continent to contend with, but they have had an offset 

 in a climatic condition which fills their fruit with a juicy sponge 

 and water which our eastern peaches do not, have, and it makes 

 them better to carry. But they have tried the experiment and 

 they could not make it go. 



A Member: You remember that the White Star Line was 

 asked for their refrigerator space for an entire season, don't 

 you? 



Mr. Foster: No. 



A Member : They were asked what they would take for their 

 entire refrigerating space on their steamer, and they wanted 

 $35,000 for the season. 



Mr. Hale: Connecticut peach growers are willing to pay 

 that all right. 



Mr. Foster : The cold storage space upon all steamers going 

 from New York is largely owned under contract by the big meat 

 companies — Swift and Armour, and the others, and the only 

 way we can get that space is by sub-letting it from them, and 

 as our stuff goes at just that period of the year when their meat 

 is not going forward it is possible to get that space occasionally. 

 They take it by the season. The packers hire the space, and are 

 responsible for it whether it is filled or not. That is the reason 

 why we are handicapped so much in the matter of space. Prof. 

 Taylor of Washington has done a vast lot of good in this direc- 

 tion, and I hope you people will encourage the work that he is 



