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["Kristina & Bruce" <herenorthere@lycos.com>]

"I have read of Ben Davis apples a century ago being shoveled out of boxcars 
into the buckets of housewives"

When doing research for a history paper a couple years ago, I spent a lot of 
time reading old reports of the Connecticut State Board of Agriculture.  One 
thing I remember finding was there had been a rapidly increased concern about 
apple quality and shipping damage during the early 20th Century.  It seemed 
to take a lot of prodding to get growers to abandon the traditional barrels 
in favor of boxes, which yielded better and more visible quality for the 
buyer.  Thinking about it after reading the recent apple quality posts, I 
wonder if there was also a widespread change to "tender" commercial varieties 
at the time, since the use of boxes plus general transportation improvements 
should have eliminated much of the advantage "tough" varieties had in the 
barrel days.
Bruce Wittchen
W. Hartford, CT
herenorthere@lycos.com


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