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will see Imt little of the beauty of the >swanii)8 in Michioaii whirh IVIrs. 

 ITul.st spoke of. I coiikl say "amen" to that statement beeanse when I 

 have been in Michigan I have been in »wamps and Mrs. Allis has fonnd 

 flowers she never saw before. 



The foregoing- remarks, Mr. President, are quite a ways from my cold 

 sto]*age. 



T understand that in Illinois they have personal supervision of school 

 grounds. They hire teachers to go out and play with the scholars, the 

 s'chools are arranged so that they have ])laygrounds and all pni)ils liave 

 to play unless they are excused for some reason and the teacheis take 

 ])art in this i)lay. Tliis work was carried on in a town of seven thousand 

 where there was a bunch of pretty tough children who were making it 

 v'ery unpleasant for the fathers and mothers who wanted them to go 

 straight and after su]>ervised ]>lay was introduced, this roughness was 

 done away with. 



Mr. Friday yesterday tried to get nie to say something about the fall 

 ploAving of orchards. It seems to me he has good success in fall plow- 

 ing, that he gets a better cro]) and more of it than by the spring plowing. 

 I do it in the fall because I can't do anything else. 



The New York State Law was brought up this morning. I have a copy 

 of it if anyone cares t6 look it over or talk about it. In some respects it 

 is one of the l)est that ever haj^pened to the State of New York. 



The sidiject assigned to me this afternoon is ''Cold Storage." When we 

 had all of our orchards we had somewhere around ten thousand barrels 

 of ai»ples ])er year and it became quite a problem to sort and take care 

 of them. We lived about two miles from the station. I began to look in- 

 to the matter of cold storage. We have a steam railroad — one of the 

 New York Central lines — running through the farm. The more I looked 

 into the matter the more it looked as if it would be of great value to have 

 a cold storage at home instead of hauling the apples to town Avhere the 

 teams had to wait from two to four hours to unload. Any saving of time 

 for the teams or the men in the fall season when everything is rushed, 

 means a lot to the grower. As I began to look into this subject the mat- 

 ter of a switch between the two stations came up and the plan that I had 

 worked in regard to damage from work on Erie canal of sending the 

 State Board of adjusters barrels of apples came to my nund. I remem- 

 ber I sent two barrels of apples and tlie^ brought me .fTOO.OO, I think 

 that is as good a price as anyone ever received for apples and I began to 

 send barrels of apples to men who controlled the policy of the New York 

 Central lines. When I asked the superintendent for a switch, all my 

 friends said it would be impossible to get a switch between the two 

 stations. A special train came uji from New York and a good many of 

 the men had had Allis's a])]iles; they looked at the point Avhere I Avanted 

 the switch and said: ''All right, you can have it." I had to pay for it, but 

 I got it. 



After that I began to investigate the different kinds of storage. One 

 of the Department men at Washington said the Cooper storage was the 

 bdst, using ice and salt. The storage is all right, but I think neither 

 Cooper nor the man at Washington ever crushed the ice for one of those 

 storages. It is the hardest work I ever did. The apples kept all right 

 but farmers usually have> plenty of work to do without looking for more. 



