STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 79 



I went on the market a few clays ago to bay a barrel of apples 

 for a friend. He wanted me to go with him and select them. I 

 said to the commission merchant that I knew, "Is that a good 

 barrel of apples, is it all right all the way through?" He said, 

 *'You ought to know, they came from Maine." He ought to have 

 been able to say, "Yes, that barrel of apples is a good barrel of 

 apples, they came from Maine " 



A Fruit Guower: I think Mr. Brown is a little hard on some 

 of our fruit growers and I want to say a word for them. He 

 accuses us of some hard practices. I think it is a good deal over- 

 drawn. I don't think that there are so many dishonest ones as he 

 would like to make out. I want to put some of the blame where it 

 belongs, on the apple packers. A great number of the apples in 

 this State are sorted by the men that come here to buy, and I have 

 yet to see a buyer who sorts apples as they should be to put into 

 the local market. They think they can make more money by 

 putting a few choice ones on the bottom and a few on the top, and 

 perhaps that will do for shipment. I want to lay part of the blame 

 where it belongs. 



Mr. Brown : I urge you to pack your own apples and not let 

 the buyer pack the apples. Nine-tenths of the buyers wint to pack 

 their own apples because they say that there are so many who don't 

 understand it, particularly the shaking in and pre.«sing in. I think 

 a good manj' orchardists have a good deal to learn in packing and 

 sorting, that they won't get from the buyers. 



Prof. Munson: The one point which Mr. Brown urges upon us 

 in marketing is the desirability of those who grow fine fruit to 

 search out the fancy markets. There is a field here which compar- 

 atively few will enter, and it is the field which is the most profit- 

 able one in the line of orchard culture. One man in New York 

 state, George T. Powell, is in the habit of sending pears right to 

 the home of pears, in Belgium, and outselling the growers there. 

 He gets more out of his pears by sending them to Europe than the 

 growers in Belgium can make. Now it occurs to me, that with 

 some of our very finest fruit, we can wrap each fruit in paper and 

 sell in crates rather than in barrels, and sell to some of the fancy 

 dealers or to the leading hotels. If you have fine fruit you caa 

 €asily get a contract with some of the leading houses, and in this 

 way making more money than by selling to the commission mer- 

 chants of Boston. That, it seems to me, is where we must look 



