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than I can get in the market alone as an individual. Those 

 ure two of the steps to take. Then I am seeking to find how 

 1 can, through that association, find a way of giving myself 

 ;i lower cost, by buying our supplies in larger quantities for 

 the entire membership. That is what cooperation will do. It 

 isn't a very popular word now, but still that is what it will 

 do if you give it a chance. I am not satisfied yet, gentlemen, 

 no. I wonder if any one has any money invested where he is 

 not satisfied if he gets 6% interest, and where it maintains 

 the security of the investment right along? If I had any I 

 would be very glad if I could be sure of that year in and 

 year out. Yet I had that profit from my apples. 



PRES. BREED : Some one asks if they were packed in 

 accordance with the law. 



DR. TWITCHELL: I packed mine with nothing less 

 than 21/) inch, or at least that was what I instructed them to 

 do. 



MR. STOCKWELL: It is not very encouraging for a 

 man to set out an orchard if he has got to pay $2 to raise 

 each barrel of fruit and then maybe get only two or two and 

 a half for them. 



DR. TWITCHELL: My dear man, you are not paying 

 out two dollars. That includes everything, includes all 

 overhead charges, improvement of your property, provides 

 for depreciation of your plant, as well as for the expense. If 

 the expenses were 53.5 for the men on the trees and 89 for 

 l^ackage. storage, carting and picking of the apples, I would 

 charge at the rate of $2 a day for the men and $1 a day for 

 the team, so that you are selling your time and getting your 

 pay for it when you are selling your apples at cost, and if 

 we may judge from this report from the Government we 

 haven't always been doing that on the farm. 



MR. JENKS : I would like to ask the speaker what class 

 of men they use in Maine as inspectors, whether they have 

 any difficulty in obtaining inspectors, and how many such 

 inspectors we would need in Massachusetts if such a law 



