UNIFORM FRUIT LEGISLATION FOR NEW ENGLAND 

 WHY: HOW: WHEN? 



Dr. G. M. Twitchell, Auburn, Maine. 



Former President Maine State Pomological Society 



Industrially and commercially, we are in the midst of 

 great revolutions where methods, habits, markets and all 

 business relations are involved. A combination of circum- 

 stances and accidents forced the situation and the titanic 

 struggles involving all of Europe has intensified every fea- 

 ture. We can never go back to old time conditions, we must 

 conform to the new. 



One of the greatest problems facing the rural inhabitant 

 is the growing consciousness that he is part and parcel of 

 the great industrial and commercial aggregation, governed 

 by the same laws and principles. Living the more separate, 

 and to some extent isolated, life of the farm, the fact of this 

 interdependence of interests has not yet been fully- realized. 

 The farmer is not a unit working out the problems by him- 

 self but an integral part of the great body, in town and coun- 

 try, facing the solution, first of all, of the bread and butter 

 problem, and, with this, the higher and more subtle ques- 

 tions affecting our civilization. 



This admitted, it follows that the customs and practices 

 holding in the great centres, necessary for their life, must 

 be applied in the narrower circles. One fact to be borne in 

 mind is that the farmer is the only known producer. Others 

 multiply forms, improve quality and change location, but 

 never produce anything. 



The farmer through his knowledge, skill and experi- 

 ence, cooperating with the laws of God in nature, must unite 

 the rays of the sun, the elements of the air and the poten- 



