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the ills of life aud the clealiug in these is without doubt a strictly legiti- 

 mate business. Then there is what the Indians call "Fire Water," and 

 which by every legitimate means we are lighting to remove its sale from 

 our fair State. Then, there is "Watered'' stocks and bonds, also like 

 "Fire Water," illegitimate as a medium of traffic, although if not too 

 great amounts are used, everybody will think it is all right. It will 

 be like the old farmer who was told that if he Avould only give a \)n\\ 

 of sawdust to his hogs he could make a lot of money. The farmer re- 

 monstrated and said that he didn't think that hogs would eat it, but 

 the answer was that they would if it was mixed with corn, an«l the 

 more corn the better. So with us horticulturists and fruit growers and 

 vegetable growers, the more water in a way we put on, the better it will 

 be. If it is a bit of a nubbin of corn, nobody wants it, but give that 

 same nubbin water, lots of it, and it will sell. So Avith the apple — you 

 must give it water. If it does not have enough Avater it is leathery. 

 But you cannot treat all trees alike, — your treatment of trees must de- 

 pend upon their character. Pumpkins have lots of water, but you 

 wouldn't think of people eating puiypkins and relishing them. If you 

 did, you would have a perverted taste. Pumpkins have their place, bu( 

 they are not apples. Every grower engaged in the legitimate work of 

 raising fruit is justified in putting a lot of water in his apples. It 

 will helj) to give flavor to your fruit, and if your fruit does not have 

 flavor of some kind, it is not worth much. The Wolf River ai)ple has 

 a beautiful color, and is enormous in size, but it lacks quality and 

 flavor. We give color by exposure to the sun which is perfectly legiti- 

 mate, because if it has not the color different from the Greening, no- 

 body would want it. When I put a supply of apples in my cellar for 

 winter use I pick out the nicest colored fruit I can find. And not only do 

 we want to put color into our apples, but we Avant to put into them human 

 life, hunmn felloAvship — the home of the farm into it. If sentiment 

 could be published, many a backache, a good deal of j^lanning, would 

 be brought clearly to light. There is no place on earth where the hus- 

 band and wife are really comrades more than on the farm. They work 

 together; where you are at harvest, side by side stand your wife and 

 daughter Avorking Avith you. That goes into the apple, strawberry, the 

 tomato, and the vegetables, so if Ave could measure all the water that 

 goes into the products of the fruit groAver, also all the sentiment that 

 finds its Avay into the ju-oducts of the farmer and the fruit groAver, the 

 farmer would be justified in charging a high price for his products — 

 but not in money. 



Toastmaster: I am about to call upon a gentleman of whom I am 

 very fond. The first speech that he ever made in Grand Rapids was 

 in 1SS5, before the American Pomological Society. One sentence that 

 I remember was to the effect that ten thousand packages of fruit went 

 out from the St. Joseph port per night. Since that time that has been 

 greatly multiplied. Our friend has had a lot of experience since then. 

 He loA'es to come to our meetings, and avo love to have him coino because 

 he honors us by his presence. I told him to talk upon any subject he 

 desired to. You Avill noAV hear from Mr. Roland MorroAV.' 



Mr. Morrow: I said ''let me talk about somebody." Charlie said, 



