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parties if they liked tomatoes, for instance. They said they did not care- 

 for any. Well, I sent some down, and in a week or ten days or two weeks 

 those people seemed to be doing just as Mr. Kellogg's friends did — it just 

 seemed to me they did nothing but stuff down tomatoes; what in the 

 world they did with them all I could not see. The same has been true 

 with celery, beets, and many other vegetables; and I will tell you, my 

 friends, I think there is one thing in which we can accomplish a good deal 

 in any community, and that is by a change in our method of marketing. 

 I do not know that it is a good thing or a prudent thing or a politic thing 

 to say here, but I think there is no marketing arrangement which is more 

 unfortunate than the oi'diuary w^ay of disposing of vegetables, the ordi- 

 nary way in W'hich people in the villages and towns get their vegetables and 

 fruit supply. The farmer grows some and brings it to the grocer and the 

 grocer sells it when he can. The people at the homes know not when he 

 has it, and if they go down town and they happen to see it (it may be two 

 or three days old, but it seems to look nice) they get it. Now, I think 

 there is a great future and a great possibility of increased production of all 

 sorts of garden products, not alone these small fruits and vegetables, if 

 our farmers would drift back into the old way of supplying their cus- 

 tomers direct — bringing the products in themselves and leaving them at 

 the place of residence and taking orders directly from the people in the 

 village, delivering them in that way. I have never known of an instance 

 where this has been carried out but consumption has been increased enor- 

 mously. There are very few villages of this size in this state but the major- 

 ity of the hous«es have land enough adjacent to them to supply the family 

 with an abundance of vegetables, and of vastly better quality than it is 

 possible for them to get in any other way, if they only knew how to do it. 

 If we could but interest our people in this town or in any town, in this 

 matter of gardening, visiting the people so that they could take a real, 

 healthy interest in the matter, induce them to put upon their tables fresh 

 vegetables, such vegetables as it is possible to produce, I tell you the 

 consumption would be increased enormously, and we would have a remedy 

 of the trouble which has been suggested, of a glutted market, because 

 the people would use them. The consumption would be increased, as I say, 

 vastly, and the advantages would be so evident to evervone that thev 

 would be very much pleased, and it would be for the health and general 

 good of the communitv, I am sure. 



GRAFTING AND ITS EFFECTS. 



Mr. Haring: I would like to ask whether it is possible that grafting a 

 tree that is decaying and dying would revive it? 



Mr. Slayton : No, sir; unless you cut off all the decaying part, unless you' 

 went clear back to the root. 



Mr. Kellogg: (Jrafting is simply transposing new life to the tree. 



Prof. Taft: It would be no use unless you had a good sound root and' 

 trunk to graft upon; that is all there is to it. 



Mr. jMorrill: This is a question whirh might be capable of a little 

 different interpretation from that which peojjle might give who were lis- 

 tening. We all understand that there comes a time in the life of an apple- 

 tree, if 3-0U please — and I ])resume that is what you have in mind. 



