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Cau plaiiliiiii Ix' nvcM-doiie, and esju'cially will plauliiij;' in llie 

 Ivist be ovmdone is a qncslion wliicli is IrtMincntiy lu'ard. Some 

 sa.v that if is now loo late to ]»lant tiee.s; it they wei-(^ now grown 

 and I•(^ad\ lo bcai*. ail well and ,i»(>od, but by the time llie new 

 planted ones are ready lo bear in se\en io eleven years llie market 

 will be overstocked. We certainly think that Ihe year 31)00 was 

 a better year i'or jdantinu' than the year 1010, bein<;- tirst on tlio 

 tield is always a <»reai advantaj'e, Unl Ihal there will be a j^ood mar- 

 ket for the g-ood crops of the 1910 })lanted trees we also fully be- 

 lieve. Not everybody is jilanting trees or expects to do so, and 

 many of the trees jilanted so lately as 1!>00 are dead as they can 

 be. Certainly many of those planted earlier are gone. It is the 

 exception to see even in Adams county a thrift^' kitchen orchard 

 or farmer's orchard. 



One argument and a good strong" one why the eastern orchards 

 are going to succeed is that the best markets are within easy reach; 

 are right at our doors, in fact. Observe the eightieth meridian 

 passing- through IMttsburg and Charleston and see what oui- eastern 

 home nuukets are. East of this are to be tVmnd two of the great- 

 est cities in the \\'orld; eight others, each with a ])oi»ulation in ex- 

 cess of 2r)0,(!(HI. Three of tlie eight have nearly {iOO,000 each. 

 Of fifty American cities with 100,000 or more, almost the half are 

 here. Of one hundred seventy-eight cities willi less than 100,000 

 and more than L*r),000 nearly the half are here. \A'hi1e the little 

 cities and the ])ig boi-oughs are too many to name. These great 

 cities, these big cities and the lesser cities, boroughs and towns are 

 not only here and are ours to sup])ly, but the census rei)orts also 

 show that they grow, and are growing generally faster than those 

 of the West and Middle AVest. 



Let us j)lant more orchards and jilan to keej> them. We are 

 the best ])laced geographically. Our land is relatively (hea]>, and 

 there are no charges for water, and as to water control, all we need 

 do is to ]>lant the slo})es and upland. The mattei- of ii-rigating the 

 orchard rei|uires the skill of the exiiert, and already there is some- 

 thing wrong with many of the western irrigated orchai-ds. ^^^' 

 are slower in production of crops but we will be here when the 

 other fellow is out. 



And while we have the whip hand on the west^ern grower in 

 the matter of haulage and freights yet the railways with the "short 

 haul" and 'iong haul" idea are keeping in the way of our having 

 reasonable freight rates, making u]» in i>art what they lose in dis- 

 tance by highcM' local rates. The express companies are their will- 

 ing allies. We cannot send small i)a(kages of fruit by ex])ress 

 ])rofitably. If I send a single basket to Harrisburg it is the nnni- 

 mum charge of :>o cents. If L send it by the Adams Company, 

 it is twice the minimum or the usual selling price of the product. 

 T could not slii]» a large (piantity of ])eaches by express to popu 

 Ions Khode Island unless in a year of very high ]»rices and make 

 a profit. Let us use our congressmen in getting after the ex])ress 

 companies by way of a jtarcels iiost. We possil»ly could not de- 

 liver fruit l»y mail l»ut a general parcels i)ost would work havoc 

 with the present too high rate of the expressman. 



We need a proper storage place for our increasing ap|)le cro])s. 

 As it is Ave uoav or verv soon must sell from the orchard at the buy- 



