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of the barrel. So long as this condition exists attempted 

 legislation, from the outside, to put restrictions on the apple 

 grower will meet violent opposition, until its sure beneficial 

 results are firmly established. 



Cooperation, which today makes business life successful, 

 ijs not yet recognized as the legitimate function of the farm. 

 We shall never witness the extension of community inter- 

 ests, and legal restrictions, until there is realization of the 

 benefits and for these to be appreciated it is necessary that 

 cost of production be determined. Legistlation, necessary as it 

 is, is not the initial step. It is useless to attempt legislation, 

 in any direction, until public sentiment is alive to its import- 

 ance. To be effective and permanent it must follow not 

 precede public sentiment, not on the outside but first of all 

 from within. 



Under our form of government, with a growing disre- 

 gard of law, it is unwise to attempt to press a measure which 

 seems to trench upon individual rights, until its full signifi- 

 cance is appreciated by those most directly affected. 



Legislation which radically changes the relation of man 

 to his neighbor must first be educative, never drastic. Look- 

 ing for permanent results the individual mind must be made 

 ready for enforcement before it can be impartial. A law on 

 the statute books not enforced is a menace to the industry it 

 aims to benefit. 



Not one man in one thousand realizes the actual cost of 

 a barrel of apples ; how then will you unite the great body of 

 growers for a fruit law which at every step trenches upon 

 long established practices, on the seeming rights of individ- 

 uals? 



The orchardist must first of all know the cost of produc- 

 tion. Then the certainty of greater returns following pro- 

 posed legislation. In any attempted opening of the home 

 market the consumer must be educated to the value of such 

 legislation and the possibility of reaching producers direct. 

 Today it would be practically impossible to find in New 

 England a score of men, outside our local fruit growers 



