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who looked through the apples on sale, and if they found a box 

 with codling moth in it, for example, or with any other orchard 

 pest, they would put a mark on the box, and a little later ^ 

 team would call for that box, it would be taken out to some 

 vacant lot, saturated with kerosene oil, and burned up, — root 

 and branch, codling muth and apples. The owner would not 

 only get nothing for his apples, but he was obliged to pay for 

 the cost of taking them out and burning them! If every 

 package of New England ap])les in the Boston markets today 

 which contained apples affected with codling moth or railroad 

 worms were taken out and burned, how many do you suppose 

 would be left? I fancy that the cost of good fruit would take 

 such a jump as it never did before. They certainly value the 

 good name of their fruit out there, and this is one reason why 

 it has such a good name. And we might with the greatest 

 profit copy after them, I think. Some of you may remember 

 a talk given by Dean Davenport of Illinois at a recent meeting 

 of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, in which he 

 spoke at length of the Pacific Coast fruit industry. And he 

 gave as a reason for their success that they had learned that 

 two good apples were worth more than the same two good 

 apples with two poor ones thrown in. I often thought of that 

 remark in my wanderings in Oregon and Washington. 



My fourth impression was of their climate, and I want to say 

 right here that while we sometimes growl about the weather we 

 get in New England, it is good enough for me! I was in Hood 

 River for most of three days and it rained practically all the 

 time I was there. We took a drive of twenty-five miles through 

 the valley one afternoon in spite of the rain, and we asked the 

 driver whether it always rained there. "Yes," he said, "at this 

 time of the year! It begins about November i and rains all 

 the time up to the middle of January, when it stiffens up and 

 we have two weeks of sleighing. Then it begins to rain again 

 and rains nearly all the time up to some time in April, and 

 from that on into May it rains part of the time. Then it stops 

 and doesn't rain any more until the first of November." Just 

 imagine such a climate! Rain all the time until everything is 

 soaking, the roads are gullied, and one hates the sight of clouds! 

 Then sunshine and no rain at all till the dust is as thick as the 

 mud was before, and one would give a month's salary for the 

 sight of a single cloud! It certainly gives color to their fruit. 



