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]\IR. HANiSOX : Is there a e()nii)uls()i'y spraying law 

 in the organization? 



]MR. PUTNA]M: They have no compulsory spraying 

 law in the organization. 



]\IR. HANSON: How do you know how many times 

 to spray? 



MR. PUTNAiM: AVell. they do not spray half as 

 many times as they ought to. I believe, that it is a good 

 thing to have compulsory rules. The organization should 

 say how their apples should be grown but this association 

 says simply how they shall be packed. If a man doesn't 

 }>ack A apples, he doesn't get A apple prices and he soon 

 finds it out. 



THE CHAIRMAN: Any other questions to ask ^Ir. 

 Putnam? I think we have been spraying, packing apjiles. 

 selling apples, having quite a number of experiences Avith 

 apples, and I think we have been eating apples, Init I think 

 it would be very timely if we might close Avith a few lus- 

 cious strawberries and I am going to call ^Ir. Graton for 

 a few words about a strawberry which he is growing, the 

 new Strawberry "St. Martin.'' 



MR. GRATON: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, 

 I won't take but a few minutes. It is a little bit embarrass- 

 ing for me to say the little I have to say on the subject of a 

 fruit that I have developed myself, l)ecause it might seem 

 egotistical and i)]"esumptuous, but I have been requested to 

 do it so I must be held blameless. 



I might say that I am the i)roud father of a horticultural 

 <-hild. that has paid nn^ many times o\'er, not only financially 

 but also in realizing more than my most sanguine expecta- 

 tions. 



This luscious cliild, T have nanu-d St. Martin in honor 

 of my native village in the Province of Quebec. 



This berry is the result of seeds sown in summer of 

 1908 at my former home in Central New York. The seeds 

 sown were from as perfect well ripened specimens as I cotild 

 find of the folloAving varieties: — Ridgeway, Ncav York, Glen 



