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the capitalist than to purchase Illinois apples in the fall, place 

 them in cold storage, and sell them out at a good price in June 

 and July of the next year before the advent of the new crop 

 in the market. 



With full faith that the correctness of what we have said 

 about the Horticultural qualities of Illinois is fully substan- 

 tiated by the facts, we ask you to come and investigate for 

 yourself; then if our soil, our climate, and our market does 

 not suit you, we can only wish you Godspeed to some state 

 where the roseate hue of the pictures painted of climate, of 

 soil, of wealth, of health, form an attraction hard to resist, 

 and whose persistent telling has made even the relaters believe 

 them to be truth. 



