overlapping In tran^poT'tation, 



He cited rni instance of a short wMle bact when a car- 

 load of apples were shipped from his station up to the cen- 

 tral part of Maine, and a carload of the same variety and the 

 same grade of apples cam^ from a nearby point in Maine 

 down to the same shipping station in Connecticut. That 

 may be an unusual incident, but we do know those cars 

 are coming from within a few miles of the source of pro- 

 duction in Massachusetts, and we know Massachusetts fruit, 

 instead of being used locally is going to the Central West 

 and down to Philadelphia and to the other sections of the 

 United States. 



Now, it is not only nnpatriotic, bnt it is terribly unbnsi- 

 ness like. We are using railroads in a most unbusinesslike 

 manner today for the shipment of the products of your 

 •orchards. That needless transportation is taking place 

 while needless transportation is also bringing apples down 

 from Maine. While they are started from Maine they 

 might go on through, but it is not necessary for them to go 

 through if those figures that I want to impress on your mind 

 are correct, and they are Grovernment figures. 



When it comes to the production of peaches here, your 

 men have apparently been very greatly discouraged in years 

 that were past because they have eonten^ied that their sup- 

 ply of peaches has been a tremendous glut on the market. In 

 figuring the supply of peaches produced in New England, 

 I find that less than one percent of the total production of 

 peaches in the United States are produced in the area of 

 these six states. 



I met a pessimist in this hall Friday, when I spoke be- 

 fore the Worcester County Horticultural Society, who said 

 that peaches could not be produced in this part of the coun- 

 try. I have been busying myself looking up statistics 

 since then and the figures that I have show that the produc- 

 tion of peaches, — the yield of peaches in the state of Massa- 

 chusetts is equal to the yield in the state of Connecticut, is 

 greater than the yield in the state of Michigan, and is very 



