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business on earth, I would challenge any one of you to name any 

 other business that you are acquainted with that would stand the 

 lack of attention that we give ours, and see if you can think of any 

 business that would stand the methods we use. It may be that you 

 people down here are very much more advanced along these lines 

 than we are. 



There has been quite a considerable controversy the last year or 

 two in regard to the per cent, of the consumer's dollar that the 

 fruit grower gets, and the ''Kural New Yorker" has it figured down 

 that we get only 35 cents, or less, of the consumer's dollar. I won- 

 der how it would work if we would say that the consumer is paying 

 13.00 for one dollar's worth of goods. If the consumer was not 

 responsible, it would be up to the growers to make the change. We 

 have got a whole lot the best end of the string, it seems to me. I 

 do feel sorry for the large bulk of consumers. If the conditions 

 are as we see them, the next move is up to them, and any move 

 tliat is made to remedy that condition must come from the con- 

 sumer. That is about all I have to say on this subject, and I thank 

 you. 



THE EASTERN FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION, ITS PLANS 



AND PROSPECTS 



By N. T. FRAME, Secretary, Martinsburg, W. Va. 



Down in Berkeley county. West ^'irginia, we are accustomed or- 

 dinarily to say that there are two leading County Horticultural So- 

 cieties in this part of the country; first the Berkeley County Horti- 

 cultural Society and second the Adams County Horticultural So- 

 ciety. T shall go home from here and tell riry people that we must 

 immediately call a special meeting and start a firnd to put up a 

 building. I see that we are second to you in Adams county which 

 we cannot afford to be. We are going to have a building. 



Personally, I have for a long time wanted to get to Adams county. 

 Now that I am here I assure you that I am very much gratified to 

 see the audience that is here to discuss the subject of marketing. 

 If there were no other impression or information that I could carry 

 away from this meeting I should feel that I had been well repaid 

 for coming over here simply to hear Mr. Lewis' practical talk on 

 marketing problems. He told us a whole lot of things that will 

 do us all good, and I particularly agree with him in commercial 

 fruit growing even in Adams county and Berkeley county, we ought 

 to have ripe, well developed apples to put on the market in the 

 fall, whereas, at the present time, we are then putting on the markets 

 cull apples that are not fit to eat. When you or I pick up a basket 

 of grapes from a fruit stand and take them home they look fairly 

 good, but when we taste of them find them green, we do not buy 



