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and fifty thousand apple trees in that section, not only in 

 Maryland, but in West Virginia and Virg-inia. Virginia is 

 doing the same, and Pennsylvania is doing the same. New 

 York state has not had quite such a delirium for apple plant- 

 ing as we have had in New England, and as they have had 

 in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, and all through 

 that section. But the fact remains that there have been 

 planted probably within the past five years, and at present in 

 contemplation, more apple trees than were planted in the pre- 

 vious fifty years combined. That means some apples very 

 soon. It means an enormoais cjuantity of apples, and it 

 means the production of some good fruit, because the gen- 

 eral practice of those scientific methods not only in caring 

 for and producing the fruit, but in polishing up the fruit and 

 preparing it for market, which have been taught us will play 

 no small part in this prodnction. We have learned to make 

 so much more of the apple than ever before, and with the 

 benefit of the experiments in the careful grading and pack- 

 ing that our western friends have been so successful at, we 

 have made our apples so much more attractive that people 

 are buying them more. If we keep up this grading and sort- 

 ing, and fancy packing of apples in attractive packages, we 

 are going to enormously increase the sale for them. The 

 people are going to buy more, but with the enormous crops 

 that seem almost sure to come upon the market in the near 

 future they cannot possibly consume them at the present 

 prices. They must be cheaper. 



Our worthy chairman spoke about the peach business. 

 We used to talk about the over-production of peaches, but 

 that over-production has never hit Connecticut. Let me tell 

 you something about that. Some of us began planting in the 

 South about twenty or more years ago for the June and July 

 market, and we got splendid prices, and we made some mon- 

 ey. That made a lot of men want to get in. and they got in. 

 The craze for planting peaches spread over all the peach 

 growing sections of the country. In the South, merchants 

 and mechanics left the towns and went out and planted 



