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ami in this way they successfully put an end to the practice of malting 

 acid lenion.'ules. It takes money if you ever expect to do anything in this 

 world. Money brings money. I was told by a certain man that after this 

 ordinance was passed the sale of lemonade was doubled. I thinli it would 

 be wise if tlie farmers of the country would get together and put their 

 fruit together to have it marketed, but it seems they will not have con- 

 fidence in each other. If you should pick out seven New Jersey farmers 

 and put them in a room together, and tlieir life depended on picking out 

 one of the seven as the man to put their property in his hands, I am 

 afraid there would be seven men that would go to the gallows. Six men 

 would not have full conlidence in the other man. I think it is a good 

 way to put an advertisement in the newspaper, and say that seventy-five 

 cents or a dollar will buy apples that you will guarantee to be good, and 

 that you will deliver them every ten days in baskets. If the people in 

 this State are anything iike the people in our State you will sell every 

 apple you have, and will make a whole lot more than by sending to any 

 middleman. I raised one hundred twenty-five barrels of onions. My 

 boys said that they would be sold on the farm. I wrote on a ])oard, 

 the sign, "Onions for Sale." AVe did not realize the possibility of 

 the market. People Avill buy if you will put a first-class article before 

 them. You have great advantages here in the Middle West for raising 

 apples. You can not name a crop that will compare with the possil)ility 

 in the apple crop. The people that raise cattle and hogs on the farm can 

 not compete with you. Have good apples and you have no trouble of 

 getting rid of them. Wall Street can not beat you. There is not a busi- 

 ness on the face of tlie earth that offers a young man the money, and the 

 clean money, that fruit-raising does. 



A Member: What does it cost to become a member of the Apple 

 Consumers' League? 



Mr. CollingAvood: Not a cent. All you have to do is to say that when 

 you get to a public place you will call for apples in some form or another. 

 I should think we coidd all join this league. 



MrS; Stevens: I signed this pledge and have stuck to it. I am a 

 charter member of the Apple Growers' and Consumers' League. 



Mr. Johnson: I am also a member. I have belonged to it eighty-two 

 years. 



JNFr. Flick: I would suggest and move that all who are present toniglit 

 pledge themselves as members of the Apple Consumers' League, and 

 that they rise to their feet to signify the same. 



This motion was seconded by two or three parties. 



The motion was unanimously carried. 



