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condition where the market quotations are very seldom correct. 

 They are made entirely in the interest of the middleman 

 handling foodstuffs. When the goods are sold at auction, the 

 price quoted is the actual price at which the goods are sold. 



The consumer is not complaining very bitterly ; wages are 

 good in the cities, everybody is employed, prosperity seems to 

 be rampant throughout the nation ; never before was the United 

 States accumulating money so rapidly as it is at present and, 

 while you are sailing kind of easy in a good boat, it is a pretty 

 good time to prepare for a storm. Preparedness is in the 

 atmosphere everywhere. The Government is taking it, advo- 

 cating it, advising it, the people everywhere are thinking of 

 it and arranging for it, and it is time that apple growers were 

 preparing for a season when crops will be large, and it will 

 be necessary to economize in every way in the marketing of 

 same. 



Get together in your great cooperative societies here in this 

 state as did the milk producers in the central western country 

 years ago in the manufacture and marketing of their cheese 

 and butter. Standardize your goods, package them in the very 

 best and most approved manner, grade them as buyers want 

 them and then ship them to the New York State Department 

 of Foods and Markets, in such quantity as you wish to market 

 in New York City. Deliver a quality to the State Departmeni 

 that is sure of bringing a good price and, based on the price 

 for which your apples sell in New York City, you will market 

 the remainder of your crop in other markets at very satisfac- 

 tory prices. 



Great packing concerns at Chicago have set you a great ex- 

 ample. It is one well worth imitating. They have put their 

 products up in the most tasty, ndat and sanitary manner 

 imaginable. They have arranged for the widest distributiori 

 possible. They have avoided glutted markets and they have 

 made enormous profits for the stockholders of their company. 

 What Armour and Swift did in the meat business in Chicago 

 in a large way, you can do equally well in the marketing of 

 Maine products which you produce, and it will be in a large 

 way. Never let such cities as Mobile, Jacksonville, Charleston, 

 New Orleans, Dallas, Galveston, Havana and Buenos Ayres be 

 without your potatoes when there is a market there for them. 



