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Mr. WoOLVERTON. — That would be a difficult question with a large quantity of 

 apples. Thousands of baskets of apples would be difficult to handle. I believe, 

 instead, that it would be better to have the half barrel. I have tried that quite 

 extensively in shipping to the old country and I think it is better than the basket. 

 The half barrel for extra choice apples has been a great advantage. That has been 

 my experience, although evidently it has not been the experience of Mr. Starr. 



Mr. Allan. — The only way to test the basket would be by re-packing the apjjles 

 in Britain. When the fruit arjives there it could be put into smaller packages of 

 different shapes or sizes. Certainly, if you put a nice sample of fruit into a fancy 

 package containing a small quantity it commands a higher price proportionately 

 than in bulk. Of course, in re-packing this point has to he taken into consideration, 

 that even with good qualities you find a few specimens which are bruised, though 

 not hurt to a great extent, but sufficient for them not to be re-packed in the fancy 

 packages. However, a large quantity of the fruit could be repacked, and I have 

 known instances where fruit has arrived at its destination in such poor condition 

 that by re-packing and placing it in fancy packages a good profit has been realized ; 

 whereas if the barrel had been sold intact for a small price it would have involved 

 a loss to the shipper. I have known of instances where that loss was obviated by 

 repacking the fruit in smaller packages and selling in that way. A good price has 

 been obtained for the good fruit ; whereas, in the other way a lower price would 

 have had to be taken. 



Mr. Geo. Johnson, Dominion Statistician, Ottawa. — I was in London, some few 

 years ago, Mr. President, and a friend of mine in Xova Scotia sent twenty or thirty 

 barrels of apples to me to dispose of there. I knew nothing of the apple trade, but 

 it occurred to me, as I was cognizant pretty well with the requirements of the 

 average London householder, that there was no place in his house for the barrel of 

 apples, but T thought there might be a place for a smaller package. I therefore 

 hired a room near the Monument on Fish Sti-eet Hill and set a lot of boys to work 

 to open the barrels, pick out the poor ones, and carefully sort out the better class. 

 They were Nova Scotia apples, and I put them into little boxes which would hold 

 about 25. My friends passed the word round, and the apples went off like hot cakes, 

 and I do not suppose that any consignment of apples from this side paid better than 

 those did. They met the wants of the London householder, inasmuch as he had 

 room in his pantry to put them in. The English people are accustomed to buy 

 about two, dozen apples at a time, living from hand to mouth, as it were. The price 

 at which I sold them was much less than they had been accustomed to pay for their 

 apples, but the experiment was a successful one. While 1 am on my feet there is 

 one matter which I would like to bring before the members of this association. We 

 are now engaged in making our arrangements for the census of next year, and I 

 have thought that perhaps it would not be a poor plan if the members of the asocia- 

 tion would communicate with me by letter, giving me their views as to what points 

 they would like bi'ought out in the next census. We will, in twelve or fifteen months 

 from now, begin the work of collecting. At present we are at work on the schedules, 

 and making our arrangements preparatory to giving the enumerators the material 

 upon which to work. I am not sufficiently familiar with the details of the apple 

 trade, or of the fruit trade generally, to know what would be useful information for 

 the people of this country and for the fruit growers to possess, but if the members 

 of the association who do know these things, and are experts in the matter, would 

 communicate with me, I think we could tabulate all their information, and in this 

 way obtain a fruit schedule which would be useful to the community at large, and 

 particularly so to the members of this association, as a standard by which to judge 

 future efforts and as a means for getting this information which possibly they would 

 not be able to obtain in so compact a form in any other way. 



Mr. Shepherd. — I was glad to hear from the paper just read that the Fameuse 

 sells well in England when it is crisp. I imderstand the English consumer wants 

 his apple crisp ; and that an apple, such as the Fameuse, is here at Christmas time, 

 or in January, has not the particular crispness which the English consumer desires 



