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covery of what was in our New England soil that those people 

 ran away and left. 



What has happened in California? This same land 

 bought for $500 an acre to $1,000 an acre does not produce 

 any more bushels of oranges than the rocky hills of Connecti- 

 cut will produce of Baldwin apples to-day on the great mar- 

 kets of the world, either in Europe or America. A pound of 

 Baldwin apples is worth more money than any pound of Cal- 

 ifornia oranges, and the Connecticut apple grower has to pay 

 on an average $40 an acre to reach thirty million people, and 

 the California grower has paid $400 an acre to reach the 

 same number of people. (Applause.) That is what you 

 have re-discovered in Connecticut. 



Go up in the Pacific. Northwest, that wonderful country 

 of apples. They told us a few years ago that there was the 

 place to come and get rich, the wonderful growth of the trees 

 there, and all that. And they have set us a wonderful exam- 

 ple in grading and packing and putting of fruit on the market, 

 but yet their yields are no greater than ours here. They told 

 us a year ago that $1.50 would be the lowest price they ever 

 would get, they were getting $2.50 and $3.00 for bushel boxes, 

 almost as much as we do for a barrel, but $1.50 was the lowest 

 they should ever take. I asked them if they wouldn't take 

 any less than $1.50 by the carload and they said no. If any 

 of you want a carload to-day, I will guarantee you can buy a 

 carload for less than $1.50 in Washington and Oregon to-dav. 

 but you can't buy Connecticut apples for $2.00 a box. Those 

 apples that came from our worthy president's orchards are 

 worth more money in the eastern markets of to-day than any 

 box apples that come from the West, excepting a few special 

 lines. 



That is the re-discovery of New E«gland that has come 

 about through the work of this Pomological Society, and it is 

 a wonderful story. There is none of these sections of the 

 United States that I have spoken of that can compare. Why, in 

 this Ozark region, 10 or 15 years is the life of an apple tree. 

 In this Pacific Northwest 10 or 15 years is the life of their 



