132 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



only the Sermon on the Mount and the family Bible. This 

 apple tree business is as old as the State of Maine is. We have 

 today the finest country for apples that there is in the wide 

 world. In the first place we have got the markets of the world, 

 we are close to tide water. Now your Western states, they 

 don't raise so good apples as we do, nothing like it, and they 

 have got railroad freights to pay. 



I had a letter from a Portland man the other day who wanted 

 a couple of barrels of apples. I wan't ready to sell them and I 

 thought I would put the price up where he wouldn't take them 

 and I told him I would send them to him for $5 a barrel. The 

 next mail the money came back. What we want to do is to raise 

 better apples and more of them. We have got to educate the 

 children in this apple tree business. If we do that we will cover 

 this middle belt of the State of Maine all over with apple trees. 



