58 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



a grand work, but we are asleep at the switch in this eastern 

 country when we let him spend his money for apple lands in 

 the far west. You folks here in Maine or the people over in 

 New York State or some other eastern state should have sold 

 him an orchard. 



When you stop to realize that the New York State Depart- 

 ment of Foods and Markets has cash and credit with the Fruit 

 Auction Company, amounting to $2,500,000 and that they 

 sell direct to the retail distributors who run the retail stores, 

 and that they advertise in the daily papers the wholesale price 

 and what the retail price should be, then you realize what an 

 opportunity you have, for the first time in your lives, to satis- 

 factorily market Maine products. 



With the cities growing so rapidly you should increase your 

 products and adopt twentieth century methods of marketing. 

 Let honesty, economy and efficiency be your watchwords as 

 well as ours. 



Remember that it costs the great beef packers of Chicago 

 but 3^/f to sell and distribute their meats to the retail butchers 

 of New York City, and remember that it has cost the producers 

 of Maine, to do the same work under the old commission 

 system of marketing and dealing through speculators and mar- 

 ket manipulators, not less than 3o'>'r to 40%. 



The Southern California Fruit Exchange is spending $300,- 

 000 annually to advertise its sunkist oranges. Put your Maine 

 apples and Maine potatoes in the right kind of packages, 

 send them to the Department in New York City, and we will 

 do your advertising for you at the expense of the state, in the 

 interest of our consumers. This is the time for the State of 

 Maine, through its Agricultural Department, its producers and 

 cooperative societies, to cooperate with the New York State 

 Department of Foods and Markets in New York City, the 

 greatest market for foodstufifs in all the world. 



