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There certainly is no fruit more delicious when properly cooked 
than a "maia maoli." 
THE PINEAPPLE. 
There are a great many points to be considered in the proper 
shipping of pineapples. Here, again, I want to emphasize the 
matter of the care in handling. The packing of a ton or a ton 
and a half of pineapples on a wagon loose, rubbing against each 
other, over rough roads and perhaps without springs on the 
wagon, certainly is not to the advantage of the fruit. In all 
experiments we have found that pineapples cut with long stems 
carry to the market in very much better condition than those that 
are cut with short stems. Xow, as to packing: At the present 
time the large portion of our pineapples that go to the market as 
fresh fruit are packed in a crate that is in my opinion entirely too 
large for the fruit. YVe have the most delicate, the most delici- 
ous and the largest fruit, the best pineaples that are commonly 
found in the markets. We put them into the largest crate — the 
largest package — of any pineapples that go into the market. We 
are at the extremes in both ways : the best fruit, the poorest pack- 
age. Several attempts have been made to use other crates and* 
some of them are an improvement. There is a crate, devised by 
Mr. Byron O. Clark, who is present with us tonight, which is an 
improvement in that it contains much less fruit and has rounded 
corners so that it does not receive as many opportunities to have 
the staves split off. It comes as near the advantages of the round 
or barrel-form of any crate that we have tried. As to packing 
material, there appears to be very little difference whether we use 
excelsior or dried wild grass, provided the latter is perfctly dry. 
The danger with grass is in using it when it is not perfectly dry. 
The paper wrapping should' be heavy and, as in the case of the 
papaia, it is better that it should be glazed. Each wrapper should 
be large enough to cover the whole fruit, including the base, but 
not necessarily the crown ; it can be pressed about the crown and 
made to cover the stem. It is important that there should be a 
solid pack. 
There is nothing here (on the blackboard) in regard to ship- 
ping, but I believe that that is our most important problem at the 
present time, that is, to get suitable shipping facilities. What we 
need is steamers that will carry the fruit with good ventilation, 
keep the fruit cool and keep the circulation of air about it. An- 
other need of equal importance is an organization which can 
place in the important mainland markets representatives to handle 
our fruits, an organization to act as the representative of the Ha- 
waiian growers. What I am saying now in regard to pineapples 
applies to every fruit that I have discussed', but it is most practi- 
cable at the present time in the case of pineapples, because that in- 
dustry has grown to assume such large proportions. I cannot 
