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it would prove a failure. I would just like to hear what he thinks him- 

 self. Ours is a high altitude. 



MR. TEAGUE. How far do you live from the coast? 



MR. HOFMAN. About forty miles from here. 



MR. TEAGUE. Your climate is not very different from the climate 

 of Riverside, is it? 

 MR. HOFMAN. No. 



MR. TEAGUE. The Arlington Heights Fruit Company have been in 

 successful operation in their district. You can visit them any time. I 

 judge they have just about the same climatic conditions that you have. 



MR. HOFMAN. I presume so; yes. 



MR. TEAGUE. Look up Mr. Little, of the Arlington Heights Fruit 

 Company. He will show you what he is doing there. He has one of 

 their packing-houses built on this plan, and it is in successful operation- 

 He informed me the other day, when I was there, that he was very well 

 * pleased with it. 



MR. HOFMAN. He has not tried it through one summer season 

 though, has he? 



MR, TEAGUE. I was there last year, and he had lemons out in 

 tents without even a shelter that I saw; the fruit had been there three 

 months, three of the late spring months, and the lemons were in fairly 

 good condition — surprisingly so to me, the way they had been treated; 

 but the fruit so far is in excellent condition. Understand, when your 

 hottest weather comes on, that then is the time when you want to be 

 putting your lemons on the market. That is not the time you have got 

 to keep them through. It is through the spring months, up to, say, 

 June, and then you have got to begin to take them out if you get them 

 into market. 



MR. GRIFFITH. I would like to ask Mr. Teague— you say the 

 tents are 10 by 10 by 20 feet. Are they 10 feet high? 



MR. TEAGUE. Ten feet high, 10 feet wide, and 20 feet long. 



MR. GRIFFITH. And then you have your building up high, raised 

 10 feet high off of those poles? 



MR. TEAGUE. No, sir; the canvas is open at the corners. They 

 lace on the same principle as a shoe. Just unfasten the corners and 

 throw the curtains up. 



MR. GRIFFITH. How far apart do you pile your boxes? 



MR. TEAGUE. It depends upon the climatic conditions that they 

 are under. If you have a dry climate, a windy climate, you would want 

 to pile them closer. If you have a moist, damp climate, you would 

 want to be able to give them plenty of ventilation. I would not pre- 

 scribe any special number of inches apart. 



MR. BLANCHARD. Answering this gentleman here, I saw in Cuca- 

 monga, I think in his own section, years ago, some lemons that were 



