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Show" witli prize apples will be held up, but the main line 

 of fntrance for the farmer to haul produce in over and his 

 siipplies out over are . the abomination of abominations ; 

 worse than the way of the trangressor, which is said to be 

 espec-ially hard. Rutherford Ave. in its disreputable condi- 

 tion adds many a thousand dollars yearly to the cost of 

 fresh country produce, milk distribution and all other busi- 

 ness forced to use it. 



Boston gives much to foreign missiozis along with the 

 mm they ship to the natives, but they would save more 

 profanity and evil thought among their own people by look- 

 ing more carefully after their own bad ways. The high 

 cost of living in that city, and perhaps others, is a great 

 measure due to ])0()r roads. I am glad to see that the ways 

 i-.f Worcester are better ways. 



Please excuse me for this seeming digression, but it is 

 only seeming, for the road to market has much to do with 

 the returns for the farmers' hard work and especially s«j 

 with the strawberry crop. 



I have omitted a discussion of varieties. That is a sub- 

 ject for a half day of itself, and is governed by soil and lo- 

 cation so largel}^ that I should hardly care to advise, only I 

 will say that I have grown more ''Samples" than any other 

 kind and that there is no better table berry than the ''First 

 Quality." 



