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too many orchards planted, that a demand can never be created equal to 

 the supply. I do not believe any of the horticulturists here are wasting 

 energy worrying over such results. I presume in the neighborhood of 

 every horticulturist you can count the farm orchards on the fingers of 

 one hand and then not use them all. The man that grows grain or 

 stock does not think it worth his while to bother with an apple tree. 

 You must attend to that delightful soul uplifting business for him. I 

 only hope he will get such a price for his products that he will feel that he 

 can afford to provide his family with the apples that you raise, for I her 

 lieve there is more health to be derived from the free use of apples than 

 there is from the free use of beef, sheep and hogs that he raises. In 

 fact, many of our physicians and dietetists are saying less meat for the 

 American people and more of the fruit and vegetables if we wish to^ main- 

 tain our prestige at home and abroad. You must educate the farmers 

 in your midst to sell some of the meat fed upon their tables and spend 

 that money for fruit and vegetables (as they seldom raise either), and 

 when doing so you may feel assured you will be doing them a great 

 kindness and at the same time providing a market for some of your 

 fiuit. With the large increase of population in town and city, if we do 

 our part, the demand for apples will keep pace with the increase of popu- 

 lation. There should be no more fear about an over-supply of apples 

 than there is about an over-supply of corn, because we are going to edu- 

 cate people by our domestic science schools, our farmers' institutes, horti- 

 cultural societies, etc., to use them as a part of their daily diet in a much 

 greater amount than ever before. The minds of manv are being turned 

 in the direction of eating to live ; eating that the physical and mental 

 powers of a human being may be at their best fifty to seventy-five instead 

 of being on the wane. To do this, rest well assured the American grown 

 apple will be called upon to do its full share towards bringing such a 

 state of affairs to exist. 



I sometimes think that the human family has been about as slow to 

 appreciate the value of an apple as they have been in grasping many of the 

 spiritual and physical truths that were taught by a few in the ages past. 

 Solomon said: "Stay me with raisins and comfort me with apples." 

 Some of us have improved our opportunities and wish to be comforted 

 three or four times daily of the three hundred and sixty-five days of the 

 year. It should be the duty of ever}- one who thinks thus to convert 

 some neighbor to the same thought that the good work may continue. 



The history of the apple I need not give, for of course every horti- 

 ticulturist is familiar with that from the time of Eve to the present. I will 

 say this, that Siberia receives the credit for growing the smallest apples, 

 while our country that of growing the largest, and here they have reached 

 the highest perfection in ever\' respect. 



