1 88 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



Resolved, That the Transportation Committee recom- 

 mends that a. vigorous protest be made against present 

 methods regarding claims against transportation companies 

 and the demand that a settlement must be made no later than 

 from thirty to sixty days from the filing of a claim for loss or 

 damage accompanied by proper proofs, and that sister organ- 

 izations be requested to assist in the agitation for justice until 

 justice shall be accorded just claimants. (Adopted Aug. 4, 

 1898.) 



Protection during growth. — The leading agricultural papers 

 of the country are doing a splendid work in directing the 

 attention of fruit growers to the means offered for the detec- 

 tion, location, and correction of fungus and other diseases of 

 apples. It is quite within the province of a deliberative body 

 like ours, composed as it is of representative dealers and 

 exporters from different sections of the country, to express 

 its appreciation of the value of the scientific deductions, the 

 practical application of which is doing so much annually 

 toward saving crops in infected districts from utter anni- 

 hilation. 



This Association would fail in its duty if it refused to 

 recognize a widespread neglect of the advantages afforded by 

 judicious cultivation and spraying of apple orchards, as 

 recommended by state, county, and district agricultural 

 societies. Fruit growers, especially in the east, must adopt 

 these measures if they expect to retain their hold upon the 

 trade of the country and continue their present position in the 

 apple markets of Europe. 



In view of these facts and conditions be it therefore 

 Resolved, that the members of this Association desire it to 

 be placed upon record that they will, as far as possible, con- 

 tinue the agitation upon this now most important question of 

 the proper care of fruit during cultivation, and to that end be 

 it further resolved that copies of this recommendation be for- 

 warded to the agricultural press of the country with a request 

 for the endorsement and publication of such part as may seem 

 to them fit and proper. 



