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these things and provide some adjustment of them, then people will 

 use fruit. Fruit is a luxury; apples and peaches are luxuries, and 

 the people of the United States are not able to buy luxuries. Whenever 

 the living can be reduced, there will be no trouble about your fruit 

 having a good sale. I am from the Pacific Coast, that great fruit 

 growing country, and I know that the apple-men of Oregon are shipping 

 carloads of their fruit eastward, running it right through your own 

 district here in ice cars, in order to supply the English and European 

 markets with a very inferior apple. I defy any woman to make a good 

 dish of apple sauce out of an Oregon Northern Spy, or Greening apple, 

 or to make a pie fit to eat. Now all this is done while you here 

 are in shape to almost float your apples right on to these markets with- 

 out a tithe of the expense. Michigan apple growers, you ought to wake 

 up to the fact that you are here with gold mines on every farm, if 

 you only understand it. 



A Voice — That's right. 



Mr. Young — It seems to me that all this talk will amount to nothing 

 unless we take some action that will mean something. I therefore move 

 that a committee of five be appointed to formulate plans for a permanent 

 organization to market our fruit, and submit same to this convention 

 at some time later in the sitting. This motion was seconded and carried. 



A Member — I would like to ask if this organization is to be of a local 

 or a general nature. 



The Chairman — Undoubtedly the committee will make suggestions 

 along this line. 



A Member — Is this for general fruit, or for one particular kind? 

 • Answer — It would be of a general nature. 



On motion the meeting was adjourned. 



Chairman — There are two more numbers on this program and I think 

 we had better have them before we admit of questions being asked. 

 We will now hear from Hon. R. H. Graham, of Grand Rapids, on the 

 subject of "Preparing the Laud and Planting." 



PREPARING THE LAND AND PLANTING. 



HON. R. H. GRAHAM, GRAND RAPIDS. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : I feel as though I should 

 offer an apology to you for not being here on time, but I was unavoid- 

 ably detained. I was, also, sorry that I did not hear Prof. Eustace, in 

 his talk in selecting a site for an orchard. I imagine that there is not 

 so very much that needs to be said, but I will consider the topic briefly. 



The question of selecting a site is far more important than preparing 

 the land. To begin with, it makes a vast difference what kind of land 

 you are going to prepare; what the previous condition of the land may 

 have been ; how it had been handled ; state of fertility, etc. 



In a general way, however, T would not advocate planting young 



