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The buyer said, "These apple sales are a eurse, but we 

 want apples, and" — and they began l)nying and the result 

 "vvas that .f.'j.OO a barrel was paid for all the apples that were 

 Avorthy for a l)ig buyer to buy. I said Avurthy, because a 

 ])]g buyer cannot go to anything but a big orchard, it is too 

 much expense. You must raise some quantity in your 

 neighborhood and raise good quality if you want good sales. 



What was the result of these sales? Well, I have told 

 you. We packed four million barrels of apples up in New 

 York State this year and it is a conservative estimate 

 that the groAvers of apples in New York State this year re- 

 ceived .$4,000,000 more for their apples than they would 

 have received had there beeu no department of food and 

 markets m our State. That was what we did with a pul^- 

 lisher for a Commissioner. Had we had a corporation 

 lawyer, from some things that I know" now, I fear that we 

 would have got JjidOO a l^arrel (Laughter). 



Ihit we had the old publisher and he smiled and kept 

 on smiling and they said bitter things about him. l)ut 1 am 

 goii]g to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, if you will listen, 

 what we heard up the state. 



I went to a home out there in Onondaga County; and 

 Ihere were four college graduates, bright young men and 

 lovely girls that had been up in Massachusetts to school and 

 tliere was no talk about leaving the farm, no desire to go to 

 town to see the moving pictures in particular. They were 

 very fond of the blooded cow show they had at home. The 

 gentleman told me that his peach crop alone paid the rur.- 

 ring expenses of his farm. He has a farm of 486 acres all 

 set out to apples and he will never have any trouble ai)0ut 

 his boys and girls going away from home, they will be there 

 long after he is dead and gone unless some great misfortune 

 overtakes them and they have to go away for their health. 



That is one of the objects of our department, to help 



tlie producer get a fair return for his labor, a return that 



will keep his children about him and his children's children 



-and, tlirough real prosperity, have them extremely happy 



