A FEW OF THE PROBLEMS FOR MAINE FRUIT GROWERS. JI 



is much better than ours. The season is longer and it is better 

 matured, larger in size, better colored and much juicier than 

 ours. This year it has come more directly in competition with 

 eastern fruit in the foreign markets, and the Baldwin has out- 

 sold it in nearly every case. I would not plant them, but others 

 may do as they please. There are enough others that are better, 

 and I am quite sure will be more profitable in the future. 



A New York paper put the case so clearly, that in closing these 

 hastily prepared remarks I will read an extract from that paper. 



"We have heard people praise the keen foresight and shrewd- 

 ness of the true Yankee, and then go on to say that those who 

 live in milder climates cannot compete with him. Is this always 

 true? The purest bred Yankees left in this country are to be 

 found in the State of Maine. There is no place in the country 

 where richer and higher colored apples can be grown than in 

 northern New England. Yet only here and there can be found 

 Maine men who do their duty by their orchards! The result is 

 that few customers know the superior quality of Maine fruit. 

 In California, with a climate which, in theory, ought to be 

 'enervating,' apples are grown, shipped 3,000 miles right into 

 Maine's natural territory, and sold at a profit. How is the Cali- 

 fornian able to beat the Maine man? The chief reason is that 

 he is able to agree with his neighbors and combine to learn to 

 operate and to sell ! Must a Yankee go 3,000 miles from home 

 to raise a boy that can grasp opportunity?" 



