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want to get them." Why? Because he went into market with his 

 peaches put up in good condition, and the people wanted them. He 

 could have sold thousands of bushels of peaches for |1.50 just as 

 readily as $1.25. Men were driving in after him to market trying 

 to sell their fruit for a dollar a bushel, and they couldn't sell it be- 

 cause it was not good; not jjroperly put up for market. It seems 

 to me this is our own fault. We are too liable to market our pro- 

 ducts without that due care that we should exercise. If we have 

 anything left, let us say, ''Here is some that is not good." Do it 

 honesth', and if we do this it seems to me that there is no necessity 

 at all for us ever to think about organizing with reference to what 

 we grow on our farms. I believe the day is coming when you will 

 have to do that. It seems to me that the band wagon is almost 

 passing; there will be a few people wiio never get into anything, who 

 will still go to the store and ask, "How much are j^ou paying to- 

 day?" The store-keeper weighs it and figures up the amount, so 

 much sugar costs so much, so much coffee, so much. He fixes the 

 prices; you have nothing to do with it at all. Don't it make you fee^ 

 mean? You have no part in this at all. Now it is your own fault. 

 You let it be fixed. Let it be advertised and let the people know 

 that you do not go into the market with anything but good, honest 

 articles, and I will guarantee that you don't need to do these things 

 very long. 



MR. KAHLER: Mr. Chairman, I do not want to take up the time 

 of this Board, but I would like to endorse heartily what Brother 

 Clark has said. We should think of quality and not quantity. In- 

 ferior goods go begging for a customer, while a perfect article will 

 always find a ready market. 



MR. McCLELLAN: We have the Hon. Mr. Witherspoon here. Rep* 

 resentative from Franklin county, and I move you that he be ad- 

 mitted to the* privileges of this floor during the meeting of this 

 Board. 



Motion was seconded and agreed to. 



MR. WITHERSPOON: Mr. Chairman, Members of the Board of 

 Agriculture, Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish to say that the reason I 

 am here is that the Legislature is not in session, and this afternoon 

 I met some of my constituents in the city and they invited me to 

 come to this meeting, and I am very glad that I came. I thank you 

 very kindly for your recognition. 



MR. BLYHOLDER: I want to endorse heartily what Brother 

 Clark has said, that there is perhaps more in the way we market our 

 products than we think. I just want to give a little experience of 

 my own. A few years ago I commenced to study the matter of 

 growing small fruits, what would pay me best on my farm, and I 

 began to think back for a good many years and I found, by careful 

 consideration, that grapes and cherries had failed on my farm, but 

 once, in all my recollegtion. Naturally, I turned in that direction, 

 and planted quite a number of grapes, and they began to get readT 

 for market. During the same time I studied how to market them. T 

 had several good crops of grapes, and I want to say to you to-day that 



