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When you receive this additional 25^0 or 30% for your 

 food products, the consumer will not be paying any more than 

 he has been paying and, in my judgment, he will be paying 

 257c to 30% less. 



Under the present system of delivering milk in New York 

 City, very often nine wagons come to each block in the city 

 every morning in the year, where one wagon could do the work 

 under proper management. 



Canada has taken hold of the matter of marketing its 

 foodstuffs and keeping the producers advised of honest mar- 

 kets, and not manipulated markets. 



The New York market, with its commission men, its jobbers, 

 its market manipulators, its false and fictitious quotations, is 

 as far behind the times as an ox-cart would be for pleasure 

 riding; and compared with the auction system, it is as far 

 behind the times as the using of the cradle for cutting grain. 



If proper support is given to the New York State Depart- 

 ment of Foods and Markets, and this business is permitted to 

 grow and develop, your products will bring so much more 

 money that in five years your farm lands will double in value, 

 your boys and girls will want to remain home on the farm 

 and not go to the city to become the hirelings of some rich 

 corporation. 



You can produce as good potatoes as any state in the Union 

 and your land for potato raising should be as high as any land 

 on which potatoes are grown in the United States. You can 

 raise as fine apples as any state in the Union and your land for 

 orchard purposes should be worth as much as the land out in 

 Oregon, Washington and the far west. 



Remember, the freight on apples from Oregon and Wash- 

 ington is fifty cents per bushel, and the icing charge ten cents 

 per bushel. You can box your handsome Northern Spys, 

 Baldwins, Greenings and Spitzenbergs, and with their better 

 flavor you can out-sell any far western apples. 



Billy Sunday, the evangelist, bought an orchard at Hood 

 River, Oregon, for which he paid $80,000. As I remember, 

 there were only fifty acres in the orchard. He cannot raise as 

 fine flavored apples as you can raise here in Maine. 



The evangelist comes back to this eastern country to preach 

 and to pray and to get the money for his orchard. He is doing 



