40 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



your committee feel, that, after all, great advancement in 

 transportation conditions here in New England during recent 

 years has been made, and along with the many matchless 

 conditions for successful fruit growing in New England, es- 

 pecially Connecticut, can be included that of good transpor- 

 tation conditions, for it is quite certain that we have proved 

 the freight producing ability of our orchards to a degree that 

 gives confidence. 



Not always are our distant markets the best ones for us, 

 and the thought at time comes, do we cultivate the nearb\' 

 market as we should or as becomes our privilege? 



Some years ago the report of this committee referred to 

 the matter of a system of stone or trunk line state roads, the 

 development of which promised great advantages to our fruit 

 growers in reaching their nearbv markets. These roads are 

 now so well developed that from many of our fruit farms 

 several of these nearby market points may be reached quite 

 well, especially as the gasolene and other trucks now on the 

 market seem to be so well calculated to help carry out a plan 

 of reaching easily these nearby markets. 



A well-known fruit grower recently said: "If it had 

 been possible for me to move my fruit farm from its present 

 nearby fruit consuming customers of say ten or twenty thous- 

 and people to a locality of ten times that number of custom- 

 ers, I should have thought I was doing a great thing for my- 

 self and thereby also increasing the value of my farm greatly, 

 but of course that could not be done. However, by the use 

 of one of these machines, I calculate I have accomplished 

 about the same result in that I have practically brought these 

 places near to my farm that were formerly too far away for 

 me to reach easily by team." 



I am much inclined to think that the speaker's way of 

 looking at the matter was about right. 



Truly, brother fruit growers, as we view the past from 

 tlie standpoint of this committee, that of markets and trans- 

 portation, we are justified in believing that we are progress- 



