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ic, because he didn't want to put us in competition with tlie 

 irrigated fruit in the Northwest. 



We had at that httle state meeting not so many people as 

 you have here, but about 600 boxes of apples on exhibition. 



We are developing in another way, and 1 was a little bit 

 surprised to hear some of your people say yesterday that you 

 paid about 50 cents a barrel for cold storage. 



We only pay for cold storage at Winchester 30 cents a 

 Ijarrel, and we have a capacity there of about 60.000 barrels, 

 and the proprietor of the cold storage plant has pledged 

 himself to the fruit growers to keep up with the demand what- 

 ever that may be. 



I think that when I was here with you five years ago I 

 made the statement that, with the trees then planted, the 

 Shenandoah Valley of Virginia would produce a million 

 barrel of apples in ten years. My brother Hale denies that 

 statement and says I told you that the valley of Virginia would 

 produce 100,000,000 barrels in ten years. And in that con- 

 nection, if you will pardon somewhat the digression, I am re- 

 minded of a little story I saw not long ago about a witness on 

 the witness stand in court, and the attorney was trying to get 

 him to say something he didn't want to say, and he said : 

 "Now Mr. Jones, if you were going along Main street at one 

 minute past nine on IMonday morning, and a brick should fall 

 off the scafifold and hit you on the head, what would you call 

 it?" Mr. Jones promptly said: "I would call that an acci- 

 dent." "Well, now, Mr. Jones, suppose you went by that 

 same place at one minute past nine o'clock on the next Monday 

 morning, and another brick should fall off that same scaffold 

 and hit you on the head, what would you call that?" And Mr. 

 Jones said : "I would call that a coincidence." "Well, 

 suppose you passed by the same place at one minute past nine 

 o'clock the next Monday morning, and a piece of brick fell 

 off the scaffold and hit you on the head, what would you call 

 that?" And IMr. Jones said: "I would call that a habit." 

 ( Laughter. ) 



Now scientific exaggeration is an accident witli me. on 



