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am afraid that you have got to take some steps to effect a 

 change. I do not believe that eastern fruit growers have 

 thoroughly realized their opportunities, because they have 

 been afraid of western competition, but I can say that you 

 have no reason to fear. If you could hear the men from 

 the western coast talk you would not fear. The thing to do 

 is to go ahead and grow good fruit. There is no danger of 

 any failure. There is no chance of failure. You should go 

 right ahead. There is no danger of over-production in fruit. 

 The danger comes from under distribution. 



We hear a great deal of talk nowadays about the high 

 cost of living, and some growers say that is going to reduce 

 the demand. The growers are afraid that possibly we are 

 going to be more handicapped in the future than we have in 

 the past by having fewer markets. I do not believe there is 

 anything to it. There might have been something to that 

 with a smaller population. There is going to be a big de- 

 mand for good fruit. We can sell all we can raise, and we 

 want to make some money out of our business because the 

 price of our products on the whole has been going lower. 

 We have been producing more, but the population has been 

 increasing faster than we have increased our production. 

 There is no danger at all, in my opinion, but what we are 

 going to have a good market for all our fruit. 



I notice a question on your program here, "What will 

 become of our peaches in the future, because there are going 

 to be too many in the State of Connecticut?" I can answer 

 that question. All you have got to do is simply get them out 

 of the state, get them away from your own nearby markets 

 into other markets where there is a demand for them, and 

 that is what I am going to talk about this afternoon, how 

 we have done that thing in Canada. I am going to talk more 

 about what we have accomplished in my district. Where we 

 were in mixed farming, we have practically dropped out pro- 

 ducts of that nature. Confined our operations more particu- 

 larly to fruit and vegetables. We are growing the smaller 



