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getting good results from good work, and we were very much 

 pleased with the results that we got from those demonstrations. 

 And in general I find that the interest that we are taking as a 

 province in promoting the growing of apples is having a very 

 great efifect in calling people's attention to the fact that we can 

 produce such dessert apples as the Alclntosh Red and the Fam- 

 euse, or the Snow apple, and a few other apples of high 

 quality like that. We can produce these just as well as, and 

 we think a little better than almost any other part of the world; 

 and by putting these in an experimental way on some of the 

 markets and calling attention to what we can do, the result is 

 that we are beginning to attract the attention of people who 

 have money to invest in fmit growing, and we hope in that 

 way to develop very much more rapidly than if we depended 

 on the fapmers who are making simply a side line of orchard 

 growing. 



I can only say again, I thank you very much indeed for giv- 

 ing me the opportunity to say a few words, and that I hope, 

 situated as we are here with an invisible line between us, 

 that we will continue to live with the very best of friendly 

 feeling between the two countries. You have your political 

 ideas and are developing in your own way ; we on our side 

 have ours, and you will pardon us if we prefer to keep to our 

 way of developing. I think that we have abundance of room 

 to build up a large and prosperous nation, an integral portion 

 of the British Empire, right here in close proximity to you, 

 and I hope that the existence of these two peoples on the North 

 American continent will be for their mutual benefit and mutual 

 advancement. 



