PRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS AS FOOD. 



Professor W. W. Chenoweth, Associate Pomologist, M. A. C, 



Amherst. 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH: Members of the Fruit 

 Growers' Association, I remember very distinctly speaking 

 to the Massachusett fruit growers from this platform about 

 three, years ago on the subject of the Home Manufacture of 

 Fruit Products. As I look back to that meeting now, I can 

 recall that there was some interest and there was a great 

 deal of toleration and there was some open skepticism, and 

 as I left that meeting I have never yet been able to arrive at 

 a definite conclusion as to whether I felt pleased over the re- 

 sult or whether I felt somewhat heartsick about it. 



But, nevertheless, when your secretary asked me if I 

 could come down and talk again along the same line, I told 

 him that there was one subject I was always willing and 

 ready and anxious to talk about, morning, noon and night, 

 and that was the subject of fruit or fruit subjects; and so T 

 want to tackle this subject from just a little different stand- 

 point to-day than what I did three years ago. But I want 

 you distinctly to understand that in doing so I am not re- 

 treating one step from the position that I took at that time, 

 but on the contrary I am still further advanced and more 

 sanguine about that type of work than three years ago. 



"We have heard a great deal said about the best methods 

 of popularizing fruits ever since we have been trying to pop- 

 ularize fruit by simply putting fruit before the people and 

 keeping before them the idea of eating more fruit; but we 

 have done little or practically nothing to popularize fruit 

 through its more concentrated forms, and I can see no rea- 

 son why that is not one of the big avenues through which 

 the fruit grower can popularize fruit and create a greater de- 

 mand for fruit. 



