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Say, we think it is pretty near time 

 for us apple fellers to do like (busi- 

 ness) is going to do, Ihat is investigate 

 the government to find out where the 

 money goes. O it is up to the growers 

 to investigate, what they are doing 

 about the selHng part of their business, 

 and it sure needs it. Now we are of a 

 rather "optomistical" nature at best, so 

 after the State Meetin' with the great 

 flow of "wit and otlier tilings," we come 

 home feeling i)urty good. That night 

 we di-eamed of all the things we had 

 heard talked about. 



The lirst thing we saw was the re- 

 turns coming in for our apples. Round 

 silver dollars, with feet and wings, all 

 in Indian fde, one after the other, thou- 

 sands of them, coming right up the 

 middle of the load; the trains on our 

 Electric Railroad, that we are going to 

 build, had sidetracted to let 'em go by. 

 At the crossing of the railroad with 

 our main street, that we have "maped" 

 out, was a great herd of Holstein cows, 

 that we are "going" to "buy" to get 

 cream to run the "Creamery," from the 

 front door of which building is where 

 I lirst saw the dollars coming home, so 

 I just rushed out and threw open the 

 doors of the "vault" in the "Bank 

 building," that we are going to build 

 this "summer," and the dollars com- 

 menced walking in and stacking them- 

 selves up until they fdled it full and 

 running over, so we had to conuuence 

 loaning them out at 12% interest, or 

 goodness knows what we would have 

 tlone with 'em. Now sir, we was in 

 purty good shape financially, if 1 hadn't 

 woke up. 



Now the "tales" that have been told 

 to them eastern fellers about the profits 

 in aijple growin' in this country is all 

 right, at *2.(l() a box, but right now, that 

 talk reminds me a feller I had out 

 here in the greasewood, on a hill over- 

 looking the townsite. 1 described to 

 him how it would look when the 

 greasewood was removed, and all the 

 land planted in apple trees, and the 

 beautiful town that would nestle at our 

 feet, and how busy we would be loadin' 

 apples on the cars of the electric rail- 

 road we was going to build, in fact we 

 (done our best to make him see the 

 mind "picture" we was a "paintin' " for 

 him, but we done it like we do most 

 things, over done it, as all at once he 

 grabbed his hat off and tore down the 

 hill as fast as he could run. When I 

 hollered and asked him where he was 

 goin', "Why," he says, "I'm running to 

 catch that train you was tellin' me 

 about." 



In the present lix that the apple 

 fellers is in, if you get one of them 

 eastern fellers out here, that has got 

 any money about his clothes, my advice 

 is to hog tie him and take it away 

 from him, and then give him a deed 

 to an orchard, 'cause if they don't 

 straighten up things, that's about the 

 onh way you will ever get it. 



I could give you my plan of growin' 

 an orchard that might interest some 

 folks. This is the way I do it. First 

 place, take off all the brush and trash; 

 don't take olf the rocks, as they fertilize 



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