56 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



Take into consideration that they cannot hold their potatoes 

 for future market as we can in the North, l)ut that they must 

 send them to market immediately when they are packed. You 

 have a great advantage in the marketing of your crops over 

 the growers in the South. Take advantage of your opportunity. 

 Have established daily in New York City on high cjuality 

 Maine apples and potatoes, a proj>er market price, and then 

 make your other sales based on the prices established at 

 the auction ; see to it that in the daily papers of New York 

 City there is a constant advertisement to consumers to use 

 apples and potatoes produced in the State of Maine. Tell of- 

 their virtues and their good qualities and see that they have 

 nothing but virtues and good qualities to boast of or to tell about. 

 Apples and potatoes can reach the consumer in New York 

 City after they have struck the dock, at an advanced price of 

 not over twenty per cent, if producers will do their duty. Cen- 

 tralize the business and take advantage of the great oppor- 

 tunity that New York has furnished in marketing at auction 

 through its Department of Foods and Markets. 



The New York State Department of Foods and Markets is 

 asking the state to appropriate $350,000 for its support the 

 coming year. It intends to build a great milk and cream dis- 

 tributing plant, manufacture sweet and salt butter, ice cream 

 and other by-products. 



Maine will be able to shfjp large quantities of cream to this 

 station and the prices of milk and cream for Boston and other 

 cities will be established, based on the price paid at auction in 

 New York City. 



You want to know what all this means to the State of Maine, 

 this proper marketing of your products? In my judgment, it 

 means that Maine will see as great prosperity as the central 

 western country, which produces grain, is now experiencing. 

 It is mv opinion that every foot of your tillable land will be 

 cultivated profitably ; that you can double the amount of food- 

 stuffs which you have been producing in the past, and that 

 you will receive, with an honest, open market in New York City 

 under the state supervision, at least 25% to 30% more for 

 your apples and potatoes and other surplus food products than 

 you have ever been receiving in the past. 



