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which we oughl to recognize and pay heed to. It can he done either 

 way. We can propagate either way. We can breed up or down. It 

 is only by strict at ten I inn to tin se things and insistence that the nursery- 

 men know the sources Prom which they propagate thai we shall get 

 steadily and regularly from year to year an improvement in this matter. 

 I know and I am sure that it is of most vital importance, and I hope 

 that the very carefully written, carefully worded and carefully com- 

 piled paper of .Mr. Wisker will be given very greal attention, and I am 

 quite positive thai all he has said is literally true and should he heeded 

 by every nurseryman and fruit grower. 



THE MARKETING OF FARM PRODUCTS THROUGH THE 

 MEDIUM OF THE PARCEL POST. 



By S. Gi.en Andrus. Secretary-Manager, Chamber of Commerce, Sacramento, Cal. 



I do not profess to be an expert upon the subjed upon which I am 

 to address you today, viz: "The marketing' of farm products through 

 the medium of the parcel post." I make this explanation by reason 

 of the entertainment we enjoyed yesterday afternoon, when the subject, 

 of the scientific marketing of farm products was under discussion and 

 when Col. Harris Weinstock and John L. Nagle were the chief actors. 

 It was one of the best free entertainments I have ever enjoyed. It 

 scintillated with brilliant repartee, with invective and with high-class 

 oratory, but. I am sorry to say. was not particularly educational in 

 character. I realized, however, before that entertaining session had 

 closed that if I were to talk upon any segment of this great circle of the 

 scientific marketing of farm products, I must either buckle on my armor 

 for battle, if I were to pose as an expert or seek a safer course. Being a 

 man of peace I have, therefore, taken the latter course and declare to 

 you that I am not an expert but simply an humble student who is study- 

 ing the question and who dares to hope that at some time we may obtain 

 a more economic and more intelligent method of distribution of our 

 farm products. In not being an expert upon this subject, I am not, I 

 dare say. laboring under any disability that any other man would not 

 be laboring under were he here in my stead; for, after all, about all we 



know regarding this subjed is the tical with the exception of the 



meager and inefficient and partial use the government is trying to make 

 of the parcel post in the distribution of farm products and with the 

 other exception of a small, though apparently highly successful, experi- 

 ment conducted recently in the city of Sacramento under the auspices 

 of the Pomona Orange and under the supervision of Master Joseph 

 Holmes of the Stab' Grange. The results of thai experiment seemed 

 to indicate that if this country ever does adopt an intelligent and 

 economic system of distributing our farm products, the parcel post 

 may become one of the many factors in that system and in the solution 

 of the genera] problem. 



Before entering fully into my subject I desire to state that all I 

 know about the economic distribution of farm products 1 learned from 

 the master mind of the century upon this subject, the Honorable David 

 Lubin, founder of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, 



