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elsewhere, but we must have your cooperation and it ought to 

 be given generously. 



Mr. Fraser: I would like to illustrate the point in regard 

 to our estimates. A friend of mine estimated he had 2,000 

 barrels of apples in August; the dry weather continued and 

 he had 800. He had apples enough, but the weather conditions 

 came in. I thought I had 600. I barreled 220. I had apples 

 enough but they were all below size. This illustrates that even 

 men who have been working on these estimates fail under cer- 

 tain weather conditions. 



Mr. Mitchell: Does the Maine State Society publish an 

 estimate of the apple crop? The New York Society sends out 

 two or three reports during the season, estimating the crop 

 from growers' reports to the secretary. Does the Maine asso- 

 ciation do that? 



Mr. Yeaton : It does not. 



Mr, Sanders : None of the New England States do, as far 

 as I know. 



Mr. Mitchell: In the daily market report, issued this year 

 on shipments, there have been quotations of local conditions 

 from Western New York and Virginia. Do you not think it 

 would be good policy to have these reports come from Maine 

 and other places in New England — local conditions? I will 

 illustrate it in this way. We grow, for instance, Ben Davis in 

 the Hudson valley, and Baldwins ; in Pennsylvania and Vir- 

 ginia, Ben Davis and York Imperial, which correspond on the 

 New York market and the Philadelphia market with our Ben 

 Davis and our Baldwins. We cannot market our Ben Davis 

 successfully until the Virginia Bens are out of the way ; our 

 Baldwins and Ben Davis will not do their best until the Penn- 

 sylvania and Virginia Yorks have been put on the market. I 

 know that if buyers are paying $2.75 for No. i Yorks, f. o. b. 

 cars, that I can get from $2.75 to $3 for Baldwins in New 

 York State. I know that if buyers in Western New York are 

 paying $3 for A grade Baldwins there, that eventually, if 

 market conditions continue, I can get $3 or possibly $3.25 for 

 Hudson river, because the competition in New York and Vir- 

 ginia is a little bit keener than in the Hudson valley and some 

 other places, and if you watch what the other men are getting 

 in Virginia and Western New York you will usually get as 



