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dent has made a mistake in saying that I have become a 

 grower; I have not ; my husband is a grower, and I am still 

 u consumer, but my husband has been very successful in 

 growing nectarines against a wall right at our place. They 

 are not as delicate as those grown under glass, but they are 

 very nutritious. 



Now we have been an extravagant and shiftless people 

 in this country, uneconomical in everything we do. but es- 

 pecially uneconomical in our treatment of our soil. When 

 J was out West a few years ago, I was struck with the brave 

 efforts people were making to get a living out of the land, 

 dry farming the desert where there was only a muddy water 

 hole for man and beast and no water whatever for the land. 

 If people can live on such farms as we saw there, every 

 farmer in New England ought to be a millionaire. No one 

 knows wiuit the future holds for us; we are w'onderfully 

 prosperous now that the rest of the world is fighting and 

 Ave are supplying the tools to fight with, but once the war is 

 over and Europe settles down to her industry again, we 

 have got to look out and the best preparation we can make 

 is to start intensive farming and to stop all the waste and 

 get into closer touch with the consumer. (Applause). 



THE CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Storrow has certainly given 

 us a very interesting paper and a number of decidedly 

 practical suggestions, it seems to me. I am not sure about 

 the nectarine business. We certainly have walls in some 

 parts of the State, which she suggested as being desirable. 

 Now can we have a few questions on this very interesting 

 paper? 



A :\1EMBER: I would li>a to ask if it would not be 

 I>ossible for the consumers who live in the city to buy this 

 fruit that the gentleman in the back of the room Avas talk- 

 mg about and can it themselves? 



THE CHAIRMAN: Is that for Mrs. Storrow or the 

 gentleman back there or some other consumer? You heard 

 the question Avhether it Avould not be possible for the con- 



