142 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
In that season we were able, in cooperation with growers, to make 
a test shipment. We had difficulty in getting refrigerator facilities 
on the steamers for the shipment, because the steamship people were 
not prepared to handle that kind of shipments and did not believe there 
was opportunity for development along that line in the European mar- 
kets. We made a shipment of about 50 barrels, dividing it into bar- 
rels, boxes, and half boxes, packing in different ways, grading them 
so that the fruit was perfectly uniform in grade in each Jot, and for- 
warded it in refrigeration and sold it in London, first requesting the 
attendance of buyers there. The results were very satisfactory so far 
as we could judge from a single shipment, the result being that the 
prices received for the fruit in Niagara County, where we secured the 
fruit, were on the average considerably above the average prices for 
fruit there. ee 
Last season (1902) we secured a carload of fruit in the same way. 
It is necessary with these fruit tests to handle fruit in commercial 
quantities; it is not sufficient to pe up a few packages and base the 
conclusion on the results of those packages. We put a carload 
through the same mill and in the same way and with results even 
more satisfactory than those of the previous year. Up to that -time 
there had not been an export shipment of summer pears from the 
eastern United States successfully made. The buyers of this year 
have taken hold of this matter, as I indicated at our session last year 
was likely to be the case, and I yesterday received from the principal 
handlers in New York through whom this fruit goes abroad, an esti- 
mate that over 65 carloads of Bartlett and other summer pears had 
gone, chiefly from New York—some from New Jersey—this year. 
Mr. Henry. Were these under Government supervision ? 
Mr. Taytor. No, sir; we dropped Department pear work. We were 
satisfied when we pene last year that we had demonstrated it could 
be done, and pointed out the way. 
Mr. Henry. Have you ascertained anything further as to the proper 
degree of temperature? 
Mr. Taytor. In our storage experiments on this subject we have 
verified completely the work of last year in order to make sure, and 
we are satisfied our conclusion of last year is correct; and I would say 
further, in that connection, that the storage warehouse men of the 
country have in general come to our ideas on that question. 
Mr. Henry. There was a difference of opinion between the trans- 
portation companies, if I recollect? 
Mr. Taytor. Yes. We still hold a different view from the trans- 
portation companies, and that is one reason why we need this man on 
the other side. We need to know the exact condition in which those 
things reach London in comparison with the condition in which they 
were when they left here. 
The CuatrmMan. Can not that be ascertained through the shipper? 
Mr. Taytor. We have not been able so far to ascertain it. 
The Coarrman. No one man could keep track of that over there, 
could he? 
Mr. Taytor. Not in all markets at one time, and yet he can kee 
track of these particular test shipments—those critical shipments whic 
we now lack any accurate report upon. . 
The Cnarrman. I thought you were beyond an experiment; that you 
knew just how to ship them. i 
