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pan will catch and carry off all of the drip and prevent it getting on 

 the fruit. The cold blast system is much the best for peaches. 



11. Don't build your plant where the drainage is poor. 



12. Don't build a house without means of passing from one side to 

 the other without opening doors to cold rooms. Our plant is the only 

 one that I know of that has a x>assage-way from one side to the other 

 which permits employees to get quickly across the building without 

 opening and closing cold room doors a hundred times daily in the 

 busy season ; this feature is of inestimable value. 



13. Don't forget that different kinds of products require that they 

 be held at different temperatures and that, as an illustration : Twenty- 

 ounce apples will freeze solid in a room where Baldwins will not be 

 even touched. TTnfortunately you will not find anyone to tell you all 

 these things; the manufacturers of ice machines ought to know all of 

 these things, and do know many of them, but they seem to be princi- 

 pally interested in selling tbeir machines and don't trouble themselves 

 to put you wise. 



14. Don't have any windows in your cold rooms, the air ducts will 

 give all the ventilation required and the best, and be sure to have vesti- 

 bules and curtains at entrances to the rooms that are used the most, 

 and finally, don't get the idea that it is an easy or simple matter to 

 raise |100,000, or |1 50,000 in a rural community, or that as a grower 

 you can afford, from a business standpoint, and a matter of self-preser- 

 vation, to refuse to go in with your neighbors and fellow fruit-growers 

 to the extent of your ability and secure for yourselves the facilities and 

 advantages we have outlined. 



If your apples are going into cold storage at all, they should if possi- 

 ble go in the same day they are picked, and in any case with the least 

 possible delay. 



T quite fully realize that it is not possible to have a 50,000 barrel 

 plant at many points, and while a plant of that capacity is more 

 economically operated than a smaller one for obvious reasons, it is de- 

 sirable to have these facilities for holding your fruit even though on 

 a much smaller scale, as the advantages and "dividends" to be received 

 are not confined by any means to those received in the nature of ^tock 

 dividends. 



The business of Farming and Fruit-growing is the greatest business 

 in the land. 



The value of farm products of this country is ten billion dollars annu- 

 ally — a business to command the respect, the intelligence, and the am- 

 bitions of men. 



Let us accept the responsibility that goes with our calling and bend 

 our efforts to the improvement of all conditions affecting our lives and 

 our business. 



With our faces turned toward the morning and our wagon hitched 

 to a star, let there be a common bond of sympathy and interest stretch- 

 ing from every farm on every hillside, plain, and valley of this broad 

 land to every other farm and fireside, carrying and embodying good 

 cheer and fellowship among all the sons and daughters of Agriculture 

 and Horticulture, to the end that our calling may be dignified, our 



