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If they do not wish to buy we see to it that whnt they rlo take is the 

 best we have. That is one of our ways of advertising. 



We have had about the same experience, especially on the early variety 

 of apples — they were off quality this year. The first that T noticed this 

 year Avas i)ies nnide out of Gideon apples. I always tliouglit they were 

 premium pic apples but when I say that my wife cannot make a good 

 pie out of good apples with flour and such other iugredients as enter into 

 it I am paying her a very poor com])liment. But later on when it came 

 to what we make our specialty — cold storage fruits — it Avas very satisfac- 

 tory. "We have harvested the best crop and the highest grade of fruit 

 that we have ever taken, off the orchard, and we have had no trouble to 

 get rid of it. I do not know but that I might be pardoned in a meeting 

 of this kind in going into details in a personal way. We sold the crop 

 of tree rnn at 90c a bushel. That takes everything on the tree. What we 

 call drops or windfalls we had no trouble in cleaning out everything at 

 50c a bnshel and they came to the orchard and got them. They came with 

 lumber wagons, top carriages, automobiles and motor trucks. We could 

 not supply the demand. I fully believe and endorse what Miss Sly said 

 in regard to quality in raising fruit to sell. We have never had enough 

 first class fruit. I believe that if we give more attention to the quality of 

 our fruit, that it will be. the solution of a large part of the troubles that 

 come to many orcliardists. We had a good start of corn but it didn't 

 come on right. We turned to the hogs. The condition of the hog market 

 is such that there is not very much money in them, but w^e managed to 

 get something out of this way of disposing of what was really a bi- 

 product, as some of you know I am a crank on orchards and hogs. So 

 on the whole, while we have had some reverses I think T can say that it 

 has been a very successful year with us for which we are thankful. 



Chairman : We will now hear from Mr. Whitney. 



Mr. Whitney: My experience has not been any better than that of 

 the rest of you. My bearing orchard is small but the early frost did not 

 seem to affect the orchard immediately but after that there was some 

 dropping and when it came time to harvest the apples there was a very 

 large percentage of small fruit. I packed my apples in boxes and T had 

 plenty of customers for all the No. 1 box apples that T had to dispose of. 



The season has been a hard one on corn and potatoes have not done 

 much. Unfortunately for me I did not, like Mr. Ladd, raise oats, although 

 oats were a good crop in our neighborhood. While this is an exceptional 

 year — ^I heard some one say who had lived in the neighborhood for twenty- 

 six years, that he had not seen such a season there before. While this has 

 been a hard year, I do not think that we need to get discouraged, but take 

 what has come to us this year, learn what lessons we can from our ex- 

 perience and then get readj" to do a little better next year. 



Chairman: We will now hear from Mr. Munson, the former Presi- 

 dent of this association. 



Mr. Munson: It seems to be the habit of farmers when they come 

 together to talk about the weather and crops, so that seems to be our 

 theme this morning. Well we had the biggest crop of cherries we 

 ever had. We had rain all the time in August and Ave feared that 

 our crop would neA.er ripen up but later the sun came out and the 

 cherries matured in good shape. Just in this waiting time I took a trip 



