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men that ever trod upon the heather. That doesn't hit a great 

 many people here, because you never trod on heather. If you 

 ask me the reason, I will tell you this, it is because the Scotch- 

 man has to work every day of his life from the time he is five 

 years old doing something, and that is the reason why the 

 Canadians — but, no, I won't say it. Do you know what I was 

 going to say, why the Canadian is a little bit better than the 

 American — I was going to say that too, but I won't. 



In conclusion, I will simply say this, that we are not com- 

 peting against each other to any extent. The people of the 

 United States and the people of Canada, have alike the same 

 great duty devolving upon them, that is, feeding the rest of the 

 world ; they have also the duty resting upon them to take those 

 immigrants every day coming to our shores by shiploads, and 

 by such a school system and such a system of government as we 

 have to convert them into good American and Canadian citi- 

 zens. We are working together for the same beneficial pur- 

 pose, the benefiting of the human race. 



Dr. Tivitchell. I did not discuss this afternoon the Fruit 

 Marks Act, because two or three times before, in previous years, 

 we have had it up before us and gone through it in detail. This 

 in explanation to our visitors why more time has not been given 

 to it today. 



This much we can say for 1906, — Maine apples. New England 

 apples, were sold in the Liverpool market at an average of fifty 

 cents per barrel less than Canadian fruit, because of the Fruit 

 Marks Act there, and because our crop was not so graded and 

 so protected by law. That is what we lost last year in the 

 European markets on our fruit from the State of Maine. I 

 have here a clipping from one of our exchanges, taken from a 

 report of the American Pomological Society recently held, in 

 which President Goodman dwelt at length upon this subject and 

 finally put before the meeting a resolution, which was unani- 

 mously and immediately passed : 



"The subject is that of the truthful labeling of each and every 

 package of fruit put upon our markets. The dishonesty which 

 is the more common practice of not labeling the barrels and 

 boxes according to the grade of fruit actually put in them is the 

 meanest thing in American horticulture, as many see it, and the 



