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seven years of my life I have held and handled twenty- 

 six exhibitions a year. I hardly think there is another man in 

 the United States that has such a reputation for exhibitions. 



Now, I have been asked to say what we peojDle outside of the 

 State of Maine think about your fruit. Hardly any necessity 

 to tell you anything about it. You know just as well as I do, 

 and a little bit better. You know that the Kennebec Baldwin 

 has had a national reputation for years and years and years as 

 far back as the Revolutionary War. I think you had Baldwins, 

 or you had apples on the Kennebec river that sometime later, 

 or after the Baldwin came into existence was grafted into Bald- 

 win apples, and the reputation of the Kennebec Baldwins is that 

 they are the best Baldwins that are grown in the world. Now 

 what more can I say than that ? And you have a reputation for 

 growing Northern Spies that equal the best Northern Spies, and 

 perhaps better than ever came from the state of New York. 

 What more can I say for that? And there are lots of other 

 kinds of apples that come from the State of Maine that have 

 that same reputation. You can grow a better Early William 

 than we can in the vicinity of Boston, and you have lots of 

 apples that originated in the State of Maine that came to Boston. 

 I was in Boston last Saturday and I asked the question of a man 

 whom I always go to see, who handles more of the Oregon and 

 Washington and Colorado fruit than any other man in the city 

 of Boston, and I said to him "How is fruit coming in ?" "Well," 

 he says, "pretty well. But," he says, "the great trouble is, and 

 that is where the slump in the apple market comes, is that we 

 get too much poor stuff. Come out on the sidewalk and see 

 what we have got." And I went out there and I was surprised 

 that there was hardly a respectable looking barrel of apples on 

 the sidewalk. And I went the whole length up and down two 

 or three times from one end of Boston market to the other, and 

 for the benefit of our friend Kinney, I want to tell you a story 

 on Vermont. He savs "I received a letter from Northern Ver- 

 mont a few days ago asking what we would pay for Tolman 

 Sweets, and I wrote him if he had such Tolman Sweets as he 

 said he had, we would give him $4 a barrel. Now," he said, 

 *'come out on the sidewalk and see what I have got." And they 

 lie right on a plate right here on this table. He opened a barrel, 

 and when he opened it, I said "Why, they are not full." "No," 



