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where I felt at liberty to say "Go slow." We must put out 

 more energy and go faster. How do any of us expect, even 

 farmers, to ride in an automobile if we don't go fast. Now the 

 only question is, to keep your balance when you turn the cor- 

 ners. But you have got to go fast, and the apple growers of 

 New England have got to stir and move quickly. We have 

 got to grow up apple trees that will bear fruit in less years ; a 

 few years ago we thought it took twelve or fourteen. The day 

 has gone by when slow action is asked for in New England. 

 We have got to move quickly and this matter of the Fruit 

 Marks Act of Canada is something that we want to consider 

 today and with a great deal of vigor and determination and 

 energy. Now we have learned how to grow good fruit, as 

 these tables exhibit to you. We have learned how to put it on 

 the table in the condition that it will show well, and we never 

 any of us think of such a thing as bringing our fruit here and 

 exhibiting it in a poor condition, with good apples in the top of 

 the box, and poor ones in the middle when we ship them to 

 market, as our brother has said. Now an apple that comes to 

 market and sells for No. i is to be two and one-half inches in 

 diameter. Now don't think that you are to be frightened, or 

 scared, if you have sold a barrel of apples according to the 

 Marks Act of Canada and there is one poor apple found in it 

 you are going to be taken up and sent to jail or prison for it. 

 There is a provision there, as there is in every law, a provision 

 in that Marks Act that says that if there is more than a certain 

 amount of apples in that package that don't come up to the 

 standard then they will be called to account. They are liberal. 

 A very liberal amount is allowed by the law. And officers are 

 provided, inspectors, to take that matter into consideration, and 

 they are not allowed to take up a man because of a few apples 

 found in a barrel of good apples. But the law is that we shall 

 protect ourselves and our customers by putting up just what we 

 have marked to be put up. 



Now what is the condition of things in New England today? 

 I know it is in Vermont, and I feel quite sure it is in Massachu- 

 setts, New Hampshire and Maine, where apples are grown, 

 there are a great many farmers that won't risk their apples, to 

 sort a barrel of apples today. Why, there is nothing to govern 

 that package, govern the sorting of that package after it gets 



