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I would like very much to have every one of you, as far as 

 they will go, take a sample of the genuine Albemarle Pippin. 

 (Applause.) We don't regard the Albemarle Pippin as being 

 the best money-maker, although of the highest quality fruit. 

 It is not a prolific bearer, and will not come into profitable 

 bearing under ten or twelve years, and is subject, the apple 

 and foliage both, to every disease known to^ horticulture, still 

 we manage to grow them fairly well. 



We are progressing in another way in Virginia, espe- 

 cially at Winchester, the county seat of Frederick county. 

 We are beginning to talk fruit down there almost as contin- 

 uously as they do in Hood River and Wenatchee. Our people 

 are taking it up, and one of our National Banks, the Farmers' 

 and ?\Ierchants', has bulletin boards in the main lobby of the 

 bank, and each man's name is put on the bulletin board, and 

 the number of bushels he has to sell. No further information 

 is given, but when a buyer comes to Winchester and wants 

 to know how many apples there are and who has got them 

 and where the man is, he goes to the bank and they tell him. 

 And as soon as any man sells his crop of apples, he goes to 

 the bank and there is a little card displayed opposite his name 

 "apples are sold." The president of that bank told me just 

 before I left to come here, that his bank paid out over 

 $600,000 this year for apples, the apple dealers having that 

 for their headquarters. 



Another development took place this year in Winchester 

 for the first time, there were 40,000 or 50,000 bushels of 

 apples handled in Winchester that were not grown in the state 

 of Virginia. I mean b}- that that the buyers come there as 

 headquarters, half a dozen or twenty of them during the apple 

 season, and the growers are now beginning to understand 

 they can come to Winchester any time between the first of 

 August and the first of September and find a number of apple 

 buyers ready to do business, and they sometimes bring samples 

 of their fruit, and usually if they take the buyer to their 

 orchards in Maryland, in Pennsylvania or western \'irginia. 

 the buver comes back to W'inchester and tlie l)usiness is trans- 



