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blame where it belonged. But cans will go wrong, so you 

 want to put in all the effort you can to know that your stuff 

 is A-1. One thing that appeals to me about canning apples, 

 is that when you get agoing, you are going to sell every ap- 

 ple. Of course Ave are all going to sell our best stuff', but 

 what about the rest of it? That is where the profit is. 

 Probably out of any crop of fruit, Avhat you get out of the 

 best perhaps will pay the cost of growing, but if you don't 

 get a good price out of the balance you aren't getting a great 

 deal of profit, and it is because by canning you can get a dol- 

 lar out of most of your stuff", that it ap])eals to nxe. I should 

 not want to can apples for a business Avithout having a cider 

 mill in conjum-tion. and I have seen some pretty good jellies 

 made out of cores and skins of these apples Avhich I had to 

 throAV aAvay, and if I had been equipped to make jellies I 

 could have got quite a fcAv tumblers of jellies out of the same' 

 apples that went into the can. It is an involved question 

 and certainly calls for a fairly large plant in a certain sec- 

 tion, under the hands of men Avho knoAV how, and I think it 

 would be a mighty good idea for the farmer to sell his apples 

 to the factory at a definite price and then get his extra profit 

 as dividends, not trying to get much more of a price than he 

 does noAV in the first place. That is, if you are getting 

 tAvelve cents a bushel for cider apples and start a factory, 

 sell to the factory at tAvelve cents and let the factory make the 

 profit, and then you AA-ill get your pay as profits back to the 

 stockholder, but don't try to get the factory to pay 36 cents 

 a bushel to start off' Avith and then come around in the fall 

 and Avant to knoA\-, "AVhere are my dividends?" I am on 

 the fence and ready to stand back of the canning proposi- 

 tion. I feel that the canners are as a class about as hard up, 

 broken, bankrupt a bunch of men as there are in the country. 

 (Laughter and applause). They don't knoAv what it costs 

 to can a dozen. They go into it; go out and borroAv money 

 for the cans ; get the farmers to trust them until fall for the 

 stuff that is put into the cans, and after they have done all 

 that, Avithout really knoAving Avhat it cost them, they are in 



