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late. We were not able to get as early a start as we wanted to, 

 as we couldn't get the land we wanted until late, so we were not 

 able to put out exactly the varieties we would have preferred, 

 but had to confine ourselves to a certain few. And I would like 

 to make this one point very strongly in the matter of varieties, 

 and that is, to urge you who are going into orcharding to select 

 as good, as high quality varieties as you possibly can for your 

 locality. Of course if you can't grow anything else but Ben 

 Davis, it is all right I suppose to grow it — I am not sure then but 

 that a man damages the market more than he ought to — but I do 

 think after looking at the magnificent show of apples that you 

 have in the armory here, that there is no excuse for a man not 

 growing a high quality of fruit. My friend, Dr. Twitchell, tells 

 me that men make more money here in Maine out of Ben Davis 

 than out of any other variety, and I don't question that since 

 he announces it, but I do not believe that men are going on year 

 after year buying that quality of fruit when they get some- 

 thing better, and I do think that here in this part of the country 

 where we can grow the high quality fruit, that is the kind to 

 grow. There is nothing that will help out the Apple Con- 

 sumers' League more than to grow that class of fruit, and there 

 is nothing that will put a damper on it quicker than to grow 

 the other kind. So this was our main point in deciding on 

 our varieties, to select merely the high quality fruits. We 

 planted this year only three varieties, the W'ealthy, the Mcin- 

 tosh and the Hubbardston. as we started late and could not get 

 all the varieties we wanted. Our plan being to go into the box 

 trade and to cater to that trade, we naturally wanted to have a 

 reasonably large number of varieties. If a man is going into a 

 different line of trade, going into the general trade, he might 

 want to restrict his planting to two or three varieties, possibly 

 one. ^^'e expect to grow perhaps as high as eight, ten or twelve 

 varieties, because we do not want to start a good trade on our 

 W^illiams Early, for instance, in the autumn, and drop that 

 when the next stage of apples comes up in the market, pick it 

 up again for our Gravensteins a little later and drop it again 

 and pick it up again. We want to have a continuation of varie- 

 ties that will take us right through the season. So we are going 

 more largely into varieties than we would advise other people 

 to do. 



