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winter. And so it goes over into Missouri, and parts of Kansas 

 and Nebraska, Colorado and over on to the Pacific coast, apple 

 orchards are being planted in similar way. In the Ozark region 

 of Missouri, sections of southern Iowa, eastern Kansas, 

 Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico, and up in Oregon and 

 Washington and Idaho, besides California, they are planting 

 apples by the twenty and the fifty and the 200 and the 500 and 

 the 1,000 acres. Grapes and plums and pears are being planted 

 in proportionately large areas. 



When I go about visiting the people who own large orchards 

 in the central west and the far west and the far southwest and the 

 south and meet the owners of some of these large plantations, 

 and they show me about, show me their packing house facilities 

 for shipping, their cold storage and the way they handle their 

 crates and packages and all that sort of thing, the first question 

 comes, where are you going to market this fruit? And while 

 they expect to market a portion of it locally, or in near by states, 

 the general agreement is that all of the fancy and thoroughly 

 first-class fruit is to be shipped north and east, which means east 

 of the Mississippi river and north of Mason's and Dixon's line. 

 A little further questioning develops the fact that for their very 

 choicest markets they are looking to the northeast corner of the 

 United States, New York and New England, close where your 

 farm and mine are located. What is the matter with you and 

 me that we are not planting more orchard fruits to supply these 

 markets right at our door? If these people five hundred and a 

 thousand and two thousand miles away can invest their capital 

 and their energy in producing these fruits in large quantities and 

 expect to make dividends on it after they have paid one, two, 

 three or four hundred dollars a car to get it into the very markets 

 where your farm and mine are located, is there not something in 

 it or more than something in it for you and me who are here on 

 the ground and can leave our fruit on the tree, plant or vine until 

 it comes to almost perfect maturity? It seems to me so. It 

 seems to me that we are lacking in something, that we have not 

 fully awakened to the opportunities that are before us. 



We land owners who live right close to these markets and take 

 no interest in these great questions of fruit industry, and fruit 

 marketing and fruit supply, are dead to our interests, and we 

 need waking up and a most thorough waking up. Why for 



