STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. II 



shoulder to shoulder, for the welfare not only of Portland but 

 of the whole state. We believe in cooperation. The day of 

 bickering, petty jealousies, enmity, of self-seeking, hostile rival- 

 ry, is fast becoming obsolete. Cooperation, unity of interest 

 and effort, is now recognized as the true basis of prosperity and 

 success. You are cooperating, working together heart and 

 soul, for mutual interests and to build up one of the finest 

 industries of the state. Your success means prosperity for the 

 state. Therefore we welcome you and greet you as coworkers. 

 The Chamber of Commerce welcomes you, because it welcomes 

 all efforts and endeavors to lift standards of production, stand- 

 ards of marketing, standards of doing business, all efforts to 

 put Maine and Maine products in the forefront of our national 

 life and industries. 



I want to refer to question 17, contained here in the program, 

 "Should not we as fruit growers produce all the apples which 

 are consumed in the State?" I say to that, absolutely, — yes, 

 and more. We should not only produce all the apples that are 

 needed in the state but we should produce enough more to send 

 them right straight across to the Pacific coast and show the 

 people, as the Mayor has intimated, in California and Oregon, 

 what a real apple looks like. I have been in California, I have 

 seen the apples of California. They are just like the apples of 

 Oregon, according to the Mayor's reference. They are big, 

 fine-looking things on the outside, but inside, why there is 

 plenty of juice but very little flavor and quality from the stand- 

 point of a Maine apple man. They raise great big things on 

 the Pacific coast, and they talk big, and they make a little more 

 noise than we do down here in Maine. I am inclined to think 

 that we make a mistake in not making more noise. Why, 

 bless you! there in California not long ago a farmer came to 

 me and said something about his potato crop and boasted about 

 what nice juicy potatoes they raised in California. Well, now, 

 they do raise nice, juicy potatoes. They raise everything nice 

 and juicy. They irrigate it to death. 



Maine raises the finest quality of men, and, if I do say it, 

 many, many states in this nation today are what they are by the 

 enterprise and the brains and the brawn of the men that Maine 

 has sent out to them. There is no reason, friends, why Maine 



