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very limited sale; you don't see them moving rapidly. Of 

 course last year there was a combination of men in Philadel- 

 phia, New York and Boston, that went out to Oregon and 

 bought fifty cars of apples, but, instead of going there as 

 competitors, they united here and sent one firm out to buy 

 the apples, and they distributed them in the different cities, 

 and there were only two cars came to Boston. The price is 

 too high, the bulk of the people won't use them. I can't see 

 any use in the box ; I don't think it drives out the barrel ; I 

 can't see it that way. 



Mr. Fenn: One dealer in New Haven has been selling 

 Oregon apples at a dollar a dozen — only think of it! I don't 

 believe if the Connecticut apples were grown as fine as the 

 Oregon apples, that anybody would pay that price for them. 



Mr. Ives : Does anyone know what per cent, of the apples 

 grown by the Oregon growers are packed in those boxes? 

 Do they get 50 per cent, or 25 per cent, into those boxes of 

 the crop grown there in Oregon? 



Mr. Patch : You want to know what proportion of the 

 apples that are grown are packed in boxes. I have an idea 

 from what I have read and been told by men who have been 

 more especially in the Hood River valley, which I understand 

 is only about six miles long and ten miles wide, that section 

 there seems to be a good apple growmg country, and they 

 liave not been troubled with scale or worm, and it seems to 

 be one of those places where apples grow extra fine, and I 

 understand they get a very large proportion of very fancy 

 -apples. 



Mr. Ives : Those Oregon apples, shown in our exhibit here, 

 were evidently well sprayed, and in the Hood Siver section, I 

 understand that they spray in some places a great many times, 

 and I am curious to know what per cent, of fancy fruit they 

 get ; they make eight or ten sprayings generally, somebody 

 says a dozen sprayings. 



Mr. Patch : I can't answer that, but I am a thorough 

 "believer in spraying. 



President Eddy : I would like now to call upon ]\Ir. E. C. 

 Powell of Massachusetts, if he is in the room. 



