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organize the fruit business of New England on as funda- 

 mental lines as the citrus business was organized in Cali- 

 fornia, and as the Skookum apple growers were organized in 

 Oregon?" 



Here is just a sample of the kind of letters we received 

 from our members: "I think the apple growers would be 

 largely benefited by our organization, and including them 

 would broaden and strengthen the body and lessen the ex- 

 pense for all. It came to my notice last fall that several 

 cars of apples were shipped from Maine and New Hamp- 

 shire down here to Meriden and New Britain, and at the same 

 time that the same kind of apples were being shipped from 

 here to Boston, a manifest waste of labor that might be 

 avoided by such an exchange." This is true in a large way. 

 Do you realize that there are carloads upon carloads of 

 Skookum apples shipped all the way from the Far West on 

 to Chicago, past Buffalo, past Albany on to Worcester, 

 Springfield, Boston, Bangor, and Portland markets, while 

 apples that are raised here, to find a proper outlet, go way 

 on to Chicago ? Think of the manifest waste and chaos. 



What can organization accomplish? You listened to a 

 very instructive illustration this morning. What the gen- 

 tleman said is absolutely true. It is only as you federate 

 these individual exchanges and their efforts into a large, far- 

 reaching exchange that can take care of the purchase and 

 of the sales on a businesslike basis, that great results can be 

 obtained and great savings effected. Those local exchanges 

 are almost helpless. What would the Hampden County Ex- 

 change amount to in peaches, when other peaches from other 

 sections in New England were brought in there to cut the 

 throat of that business and that enterprise there? Abso- 

 lutely nothing. 



New England is right up against this. The fruit grow- 

 ers of the West are organized. They are taking the mar- 

 kets away from us though they have to pay transportation 

 clear across the continent. The New England fruit industry 

 is in a condition similar to Russia. Russia is unorganized. 



