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AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
opening of the Exposition and until specimens of the crop of 1900 are 
available. 
It is proposed to place these fruits in cold storage, to be drawn on from 
time to time to replenish the exhibit, and to distribute specimens to persons 
interested in testing their quality. The exhibit "will be collective, but each 
contributor will receive full credit for what he exhibits and the same con- 
sideration from the Jury of Awards that he would have if individual space 
were allotted him. 
Collections made by states, horticultural societies, boards of trade, ship- 
ping associations, railroad companies, etc., will have the same consideration 
as those from individuals. 
The Department has issued a circular (No. 8) of instructions which gives 
all necessary directions for aiding in the success of the work it has under- 
taken for the Paris Exposition. Copies of this circular will be sent free on 
application to parties interested in making the American fruit exhibit at 
Paris a success, and the co-operation of all such persons is solicited. 
Mr. W. B. K. Johnson, Pennsylvania, inquired as to how much of each 
variety of apples should be shipped, to be puMn the cold storage, so that a 
State Society might have a continual exhibit. 
Col. Brackett: That would depend altogether upon the section of country 
from which the varieties are obtained and also upon the quantities that the 
contributor can supply. 
Mr. Johnson: A peck, a half bushel, a bushel or two, a barrel or how 
much? 
Col. Brackett: We do not design to have less than half a bushel of a 
variety, though of some new varieties we propose to take a smaller quantity. 
The next business was the presentation of a paper on “Evils Attendant 
Upon Prevailing Methods of Marketing,” which was read by its author, 
Mr. J. W. Kerr, of Denton, Md. It was greeted with much applause. The 
paper was as follows: 
THE EVILS ATTENDANT UPON PREVAILING METHODS OF 
MARKETING. 
BY J. W. KERR, DENTON, MD. 
Do evils of any magnitude obtain, grow out of, or attach to the prevailing 
practices of our horticultural marketing? Could this query be answered by 
all the parties interested, so that the individual units of emphasis could be 
incorporated, compounded or welded into one simple reply, methinks the 
dynamic properties thereof would be all-sufficient to upset a hilarious and 
full feathered Kansas cyclone with its forceful “yes.” A brief and simple 
discussion of these evils contemplates no studied remedial theory or pro- 
found speculative reformation, but merely a crudely constructed framework 
of an acknowledgment of their debauching influence. No locality or com- 
munity in the broad domain of our country from which horticultural products 
are shipped to market by the growers, is without sin in this particular. 
Cancerous in character of procedure, they affect deleteriously every pulse- 
beat of the entire organism of horticultural pursuits. Here and there corpo- 
rate power — and less frequently, individual tact of the highest and exceed- 
ingly rare order, under and by virtue of conditions,' which to dream of making 
