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where there is a demand for them and bring a good price. 

 For instance, take crabapples. Vcr\ often tliev are not 

 worth picking, so far as the market at home is concerned, 

 but out there the}" sell better than any other apple. Then 

 again in pears and other fruits, we know what the market 

 wants, and we advise them to plant them. Then we can take 

 that fruit for them, ship it and market it. The market may 

 be unlimited in some cases. Most of those people when they 

 start only turn in small quantities, but if they raise what the 

 association can sell we can take their fruit and do better by 

 it than they can because we are catering to certain markets 

 all the time, keep in touch with those markets, and know 

 what they want. Take certain points in our province and in 

 some of the eastern provinces. If there is a demand, why, 

 we rim a little in there. Occasionally, we will drop a car or 

 two over here. "We are not able to do much of that. 



Then there is another class that the association work 

 benefits. "We have men working in the shops in the cities, in 

 our cities, the same as yon have here in Hartford, I pre- 

 sume. They have accumulated two or three hundred dol- 

 lars. Perhaps they have got along to a time of life, or their 

 health has given out, and they find that they have got to 

 stop working in the shop, and so thev get out in the countrv 

 and buy five or ten acres for a home. They simply bring 

 their fruit to us, give it to the association to sell, and the 

 association places it on the market without trouble to that 

 man. In that way. it is a benefit to him. He gets a better 

 price. He is able to look after his fruit, he is able to work 

 occasionally at his trade, which enables him to pay for his 

 place. Then again, we get some of the city people who, be- 

 cause of ill health or because they have lost their position, or 

 something of that kind, come out into the country and raise 

 a little fruit. Of course, they drop in and thev get advice 

 from us as to how to start, we take the fruit and do as well 

 as we can by them. So that it works out very well. It has 

 been the salvation of the fruit growers in the district. 



