92 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The most important thing to which this Association can give its 

 attention for the next few years is packing. Establish packing schools, 

 like the Virginia Horticultural Society, and teach your people to use 

 the Sulzer Bill. Make it alive. Use it and then insist upon selling 

 under it. If some weak-minded buyer wants to put up a lot of "junk," 

 set the dog on him and order him off the premises. Don't allow this 

 poison to go out of your orchards. You can't tell what will be done 

 with it. Buyers and dealers are just as bad as growers, and I don't 

 know but they are worse. We are tarred with the same stick, but I am 

 appealing to you because you are the fountain-head and because I know 

 that the buyers can't solve the problem alone. 



Gentlemen, there is no use in just talking. It is a waste of time 

 to consider these questions unless action results. I didn't come out 

 here for fun. I came because I know that we must have a better pack. 

 I know what we are up against. I came because I believe heart and 

 soul in the merits of the Sulzer Bill. It is the way of salvation and I 

 beg of you to rally around and fight the good fight. 



When Saladin, the Sultan, thrice conqueror of Syria, the man who 

 made the desert blossom with civilization and before whom the cohorts 

 of Richard the Lion-Hearted trembled — when he died there was carried 

 before him in his funeral procession his shirt and before the shirt walked 

 a crier who cried unto the people, "Behold all that is left of Saladin, 

 the Mighty Conqueror of the East!" 



When Bobert Bruce of Scotland died, he committed his heart in a 

 golden casket to the Douglass. The Douglass setting out upon the 

 crusades carried the heart of Bruce as his most sacred possession. When 

 in Spain and surrounded by the Moors, seeing the tide of battle turn- 

 ing against him, he flung far the golden heart of Bruce unto the very 

 midst of the conflict crying, "Lead on, Oh Heart of Bruce, living or 

 dead the Douglass will follow thee." 



I prefer to follow the heart of Bruce rather than the shirt of Saladin. 

 I do not care to walk in the funeral procession of the apple industry 

 while before it is carried a barrel of "junk" and before the "junk" a 

 crier who shall cry unto the people, "Behold all that is left of a great 

 business that was established by the Almighty, favored by the Govern- 

 ment and blessed by every suitable facility, but was killed by its 

 friends." Throw out your Standard Grades into the very midst of the 

 conflict and say, "Living or dead, the Douglass will follow thee." The 

 golden heart of Bruce is in your keeping and the keeping of every man 

 who is interested in the apple. Guard it. use it. Back under the 

 Snlzer Bill. 



DISCUSSION. 



A Member — T think we should take some action on this Snlzer Apple 

 Law. It is not compulsory. I wish we could get all our members to 

 park under it — it would be a good thing — and to ask all our subordinate 

 societies to do the same. 



Mr. Smythe — It seems to me that we should carry this a little further. 

 It is not the honest man that we want to £ct after — it is the dishonest 

 man. This Sulzer law is a good thing, but what we want is something 

 for the men who do not come to these meetings. We have hundreds 



