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ing it would carry much more weight than if sent out by the 

 Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association. The consumer 

 and the grower benefit from it. 



"When? Eat fruit in season. Fruit in season is always 

 reasonable. Fruit in season is always fresh. Fruit out of 

 season is expensive and stale because it is hauled long dis- 

 tances." Of course, this applied more to the small fruit 

 grower than to the apple. 



"Fruit in season comes from nearby points." 



This was an especially good point, — "Watch the mar- 

 ket for times of low prices and then can, preserve and evap- 

 orate in large quantities." We all know that there have 

 been certain seasons when then was a glut in the markets 

 of small fruits — and if the consumer knew something about 

 this, then he or she would go on the market at that time and 

 I^urchase our fruits for putting up. 



"This will use up fruit that would otherwise be wasted 

 and will furnish desserts for the winter — delicious and nu- 

 tritious." 



I wanted to bring this to your attention because by a 

 distribution of 100,000 of those bulletins an extra demand 

 was created for fruit. I know personally I used something 

 like two or three thousand of them, and people were glad to 

 get them and seemed to respond. 



There is a number of drying apparatus on the mar- 

 ket. There is one that could be purchased for five or six 

 dollars, or could last year. It is a home one, but I think we 

 should have something on a larger scale. 



Now we should look ahead a little to the season which 

 is before us. We are facing hard problems, — we are facing 

 expensive conditions for fertilizer, and the spray material is 

 high, we should not neglect our orchards or fruit planta- 

 tions and we should spray them as thoroughly as we can. 

 If we neglect them this season, they may get where it is going 

 to take a long while to get them back where they are at the 

 present time. I believe those who are at the head of the 

 food department, especially the sugar department, will rea- 



