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matter of personal opinion and judgment. As a rule it is more 

 important that a package of apples should be uniform than that 

 they should be of any certain size. 



In my opinion a well drawn apple bill to regulate the grad- 

 ing, packing and marketing of fruit would be of distinct advan- 

 tage to the apple industry of the State. The object of such bill 

 should be largely educational and fines and penalties should be 

 only the last resort. The successful marketing of fruit calls 

 for quite a high order of intelligence. Any one may hit the 

 market right on one particular season, but to be uniformly right 

 in forcasting conditions and prices calls for a generous knowl- 

 edge of the extent and quality of the crop at home and abroad 

 as well as a thorough understanding of the business and eco- 

 nomic conditions that prevail, which enter into the making of 

 price in this commodity of trade. The average grower would 

 "better sell his fruit at the very first opportunity and thus be 

 relieved of all responsibility in the matter. The careful, pains- 

 taking orchardist should use every effort to get a good price 

 for his product, being entitled to the same for the extra care and 

 attention that he has given to it. A storage building in propor- 

 tion to the size of our crop is a good investment and will be 

 called into use three years out of five. Sometimes it will pay 

 for itself in the saving of the profits on one year's crop. 



CONCLUSIONS. 



The modern methods of orchard management as contrasted 

 with methods either formerly used, or unfortunately too much 

 in use at present, are simply methods which appeal to the com- 

 mon sense of every investigating and inquiring mind. They 

 are methods that must be adopted in order to conform to the 

 changed condition of things. The growing of apples is a special 

 line of work, and in the final analysis is an art, a science and a 

 business. A fair measure of success may be attained by com- 

 bining the growing of fruit with the dairy business or with the 

 growing of other farm crops, but frhe marvelous success that our 

 western fruit brethren have attained ought amply to demon- 

 strate to us that the best results are to be secured when our 

 attention is concentrated on one line of work and thus we may 

 learn to do that one thing well. I believe that each of our New 



