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high grade of apples. The poorer varieties and cheaper 

 grades are sold to hucksters, who come from New Bruns- 

 wick and elsewhere in wagons and trucks late in the season, 

 carting them in their own open-head barrels. 



There is no better way to increase the consumption of 

 apples than to advertise and exhibit them in the cities, where 

 the people can see just what we are growing. 



Public exhibitions each year of both boxes and barrels of 

 such fruit as we are now growing in the East will do more 

 toward stimulating a demand for our apples than any other 

 one thing we can possibly do. 



That is just what created such a demand for the West- 

 ern grown fruit here in our Eastern markets, and this con- 

 dition will continue until we show the consumer that the 

 Eastern grower can supply them with apples of a much 

 higher quality than those they are now eating which come 

 from the great apple regions of the West. 



Commercial apple growers should be thoroughly organ- 

 ized ; they should control their own cold storage plants 

 They would then be in a position to secure the very highest 

 prices for their fruit. 



Most of the storage room in New York City and else- 

 where is controlled by speculators or commission men, who 

 buy up large quantities of apples early in the season and 

 usually make more out of them than the grower, 



I notice the most successful growers in the State of New 

 Jersey are those who keep in close touch with our experi- 

 ment station. As a matter of fact, we greatly appreciate 

 the assistance we get from that department and are proud 

 of our staff of Professors, at least three of whom come from 

 the State of Massachusetts. I think the fruit grower in 

 general should keep in close touch and co-operate as much as 

 possible with the various departments of experiment station 

 work in every State, and they will be greatly benefitted 

 by so doing. 



In conclusion, I regret to say the American farmer and 

 fruit grower is confronted Avith the most difficult problems 



