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same thing and taught also to send back otlier apples if the corner 

 grocer is so unwise as to send a substitute around to her, the re- 

 tailers and the wholesalers will eventually be forced to stock with 

 York Imperial apples. To get the same they must come to some 

 orchard in our section of the country beginning with Adams county, 

 Pa., in the North and ending practically with Augusta county, Vir- 

 ginia, in the Soutli, and only a few miles wide. Outside of this 

 limited area there may be some York Imperials giown but not many. 

 In other words there is this unique situation in a restricted area 

 producing for some years a commercial crop of York Imperial 

 apples cannot exceed a few hundied tliousaud barrels this must all 

 come from comparatively small territory in the Shenandoah, Cum- 

 berland and Potomac valleys. This apple is already favorably 

 knoAvn in certain markets so located geographically as to be most 

 available from this section. It is an apple of such peculiar shape 

 that any house-wife, however ignorant previously she may have been 

 of apples, can be easily taught to identify it. 



Prosperous cities have grown uj) around manufacturing plants 

 producing patented articles with which other plants could not coin- 

 pete but almost without exception one of the most important de- 

 partments of such a plant putting out a specialty has been its adver- 

 tising department. 



Why shouldn't we in this section so organize and so advertise 

 that we can dictate the styles in apples in certain markets particular- 

 ly with reference to the York Impeiial. Every apple of this va- 

 riety bears its own trade-mark, which we alone are producing in 

 commercial quantities. 



If the West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania State 

 societies will apjioint committees, who can get together and organize 

 so as to devise and work a plan along this line which should be 

 possible for this section to get back in extra profits from our apples 

 some of the hard-earned money that we have sent to the cities for 

 stylish and high-priced but not net needed derbies, hats, etc. 



