Mr. Ludlow: I would like to ask for the comparative prices you received for the three apples you mentioned, Wealthy, Greening and Hibernal.
Mr. Richardson: The Hibernal sold for around $3.00 a barrel and the Wealthy sold for three something. Mind you, I never sold apples at all until this year to Minneapolis markets. I can sell all the apples I can grow myself without any trouble if I have the proper men to pick them and pack them at home. I had a son that was doing that until a few years ago, and he followed my instructions and would place nothing but first class stuff in the barrels and would sell my samples without any trouble and get the top market price. I run across down in my cellar some of last year's crop of Northwest Greenings, just two of them left, one of them partially decayed. Something I never had known to happen before. They lay in the cellar just wrapped up.
Mr. Ludlow: It wasn't embalmed?
Mr. Richardson: No, sir. Gentlemen, you need not be afraid of growing fruit in Minnesota.
Mr. Ludlow: What peculiar method have you for keeping those apples?
Mr. Richardson: Just wrapped in paper only.
The President: What temperature do you keep in your cellar?
Mr. Richardson: 40 degrees about this time.
The President: You have a heater in your cellar?
Mr. Richardson: Yes, sir, but this is shut off from that, though the pipes run through.