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ticular, and other years to follow it, may see the greatest 

 success of our industry? The following it seems to me are 

 some of the important matters which ought to claim the at- 

 tention of every fruit grower in New England. 



1st. First and foremost we ought to do everything in 

 our power to insure a good crop of good fruit. Nothing can 

 equal the importance of this. Given all good apples and 

 anybody can pack them honestly and almost anybody can 

 sell them. Moreover given really good apples and the de- 

 mand would increase so that we couldn't keep up with the 

 market ! But this good fruit means better work than most 

 of us are now doing along all of the many lines which con- 

 tribute to the production of a crop of fruit. It means bet- 

 ter pruning, better spraying, better culture, more intelligent 

 fertilizing, more and better thinning, better handling and 

 packing and storing! „ 



2d. We ought to have better quality varieties. Few 

 people realize what a difference it would make in the apple 

 business if all our varieties were as good as the Northern 

 8py and the Mcintosh and the best of our Baldwins. It 

 would revolutionize the business ! People would eat ten ap- 

 ples where they now eat one. And so I always welcome 

 such a discussion as we had this morning from Mr. Rees on 

 this subject. It is an old subject but ever new. And it is well 

 worth while for this Association to keep up its interest in the 

 subject and see that our growers have the latest and best in- 

 formation on all varieties, old as well as new. 



3d. We ought to support in every way possible, the 

 movement already mentioned, for uniform legislation gov- 

 erning the packing and selling of apples. Wherever this has 

 been tried it has resulted in good to the industry. Canada 

 is the most conspicuous example of its good effects and men 

 engaged in every branch of the fruit business tne?e are loud 

 in their praises of the Canadian Fruit Marks Act which has 

 standardized the Canadian apple and given it a most envi- 

 able reputation in the markets of the world. I do not be- 



