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other places, and shipped carloads of them all over this 

 country and distributed them free to consumers and to groc- 

 ers, to be delivered to the country people. They got the peo- 

 ple to using the bananas, and consequently to-day that com- 

 pany is enormously prosperous and paying a good dividend 

 on its ordinary stock. I say that that is the way business men 

 handle a thing of this sort. We have got to get into some 

 such thing, try to educate the people as much as we can to 

 a greater consumption of fruit. We are raising less than 

 twenty millions of barrels of apples a year, with a population 

 of over eighty millions. That is the reason that bananas and 

 oranges are cheap, because they are apparently plenty, and 

 the people are using them. We ought to raise and sell a good 

 many more apples than that number of barrels a year with 

 such a population as we have got. But apples are high to- 

 day, running from sixty to seventy-five cents, and even a dol- 

 lar a dozen for some of the best grades. We have got to 

 educate the consumers to eat more, and we have got to raise 

 more of them to meet that demand. 



The Toastmaster: Before we adjourn we must hear 

 from the new President of the Connecticut Poultry Associa- 

 tion. Mr. W. O. Rogers of Norwich. 



Mr. Rogers: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I 

 want to say that it gives me great pleasure to stand up here 

 this evening and say just a word to you. I thank you, Mr. 

 President, for inviting me to this meeting. I feel as if I 

 had received a great deal here to-night. I believe that all the 

 New England states have been heard from except Vermont. 

 I do not believe that Vermont has been represented. I was 

 a little anxious for fear that New Hampshire would not be 

 represented, but it has been represented by the gentleman on 

 my right. Mr. Sanderson. I was originally from New Hamp- 

 shire, the good old Granite State. I believe it is one of the 

 best states in the Union. Still, Connecticut is just as good. 

 Connecticut has been my state for twentv-five vears, and I 



