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tialities of the soil in multiplying the products of the earth 

 for the sustenance of man. Unfortunately he has not kept 

 in touch with the high position he occupies in the industrial 

 field and has failed to count himself, first of all, a manufact- 

 urer. Individual conceptions and standards have governed 

 and natually uniformity in products, coming from different 

 sections, has been lacking. , 



Working out the problem of life by himself there has 

 resulted a spirit of opposition to restraint over his business, 

 and legislation, intended solely to benefit, has, too often, 

 been considered a crime against the farm. 



Opposition to remedial legislation is but the logical 

 outcome of past experiences. Before effective measures for 

 relief can be made active, those on the outside must first get 

 the viewpoint of the man on the farm. Reforms can never 

 be forced and made lasting. Men engaged in large opera- 

 tion can have no conception of the farmer's outlook and 

 think him obstinate when he is but protecting his own. For 

 this reason legislation looking to the unifying of standards 

 of grading, packing and branding fruit must first of all be 

 educative. 



It would be criminal to force m.en, who all their lives 

 have followed individual conceptions of market demands in 

 packing, to conform to rigid legal requirements, without 

 first making clear their material as well as financial benefits. 

 New England farmers have, by training, practice, inheri- 

 tance, and environment, grown into a spirit of independent 

 Thinking and action Avhich the city inhabitant, with his 

 multiplicity of helps, can knoAV nothing of. We hear so much 

 about the dishonesty of the farmers in. so called, deaconing 

 of their apples, but not a word about the crime of adultera- 

 tion of every named food product by manufacturers or the 

 fraud of false representation. It is all right to put Benzoate 

 of Soda into nearly every food and drug product, because 

 political influence has made it legal, regardless of the cer- 

 tain injurious effect upon the user, but it is criminal for the 

 farmer to put undersized or imperfect apples in the center 



