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quantity, we are going to get quantity, and we are going to get 

 it in abundance from the West in the next ten years, we are 

 going to be filled with apples from the Western States, apples 

 of very questionable quality, — good in appearance, look fine, 

 sell well, but when the buyers come along and know that they 

 can get good apples and get quality in New England, I believe 

 they are going to stick to New England. At present we are 

 buying in Boston apples such as Jonathan, Ben Davis and that 

 sort of apple, which looks well, appears well on the table — 

 certainly a fine apple to make up a center piece on a dinner 

 table or anything of that sort, but they have not the quality. 

 Now we can grow in New England apples, and grow them 

 within a few miles of the large cities, apples that have got qual- 

 ity, and they have got the appearance, and that is what we want 

 to keep at in New England here. We want to grow quality. 

 Of course there are chances to grow at the same time a quantity 

 of other fruit that we can ship greater distances, but another 

 thing is we want to grow more early apples. Here is a market 

 in Boston for early apples. Williams were selling in the Boston 

 market this year for three to four dollars a barrel, other apples 

 in proportion, whereas later apples never would bring those 

 large prices when grown in New England. I believe the reason 

 why early apples have been neglected in New England is because 

 we can't grow them, and haven't grown them fancy. We have 

 got to spray, we have got to prune ; this matter of spraying has 

 got to be brought out more forcibly here in Maine than any- 

 where else. You are going to have all the gypsy moths, brown- 

 tails, scales and everything else we have in Massachusetts, and 

 you will find the sooner you begin to spray and take care of your 

 orchards the better profit they will pay you. Spraying may 

 seem a lot of work, but it has got to come. All the big orchard- 

 ists in the West, South and Middle States spray just as system- 

 atically as they are picked, and they are pruned and thinned just 

 as systematically. And we have got to spray our small fruits 

 just the same, strawberries, currants and gooseberries, just the 

 same as we would larger fruits. And those methods applied 

 here in New England will increase our profits and our quality. 

 What we want to look after is quality and not quantity, so that 

 New England will get a name for quality unsurpassed in the 

 country. I have here a few apples that I bought, grown in 



