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abandoned cotton plantations with peaches. A good deal of 

 that plantinq- has taken place in the last few years. In the 

 last two years they have planted a good many in Texas, Ar- 

 kansas, and a little in Alabama. They began to get the first 

 good crop all around about two years ago. What was the 

 result? Why, there were eleven thousand carloads of 

 peaches put upon the American market in five weeks. The 

 laborers got hundreds of thousands of dollars for their work. 

 The railroads got fully paid for the transportation, and for 

 the use of refrigerator cars. Alillions of dollars went into 

 circulation in that way. The jobbers handled them. The re- 

 tailers put them out to the people, and the people consumed 

 them at just about two-thirds of the old prices. Of that two- 

 thirds of the old prices it did not return a dollar to the pro- 

 ducer, and of those eleven thousand carloads there was only 

 a very small proportion of which returned a fair profit to 

 the producer. Some men made a profit, and some men met 

 with actual losses, but taking the whole thing together the 

 growers of those eleven thousand cars of peaches did not get 

 a dollar for the cost of production. Whether that will hap^ 

 pen to the growers of these apples who are planting ten, 

 twenty, thirty, fifty and one hundred and eiglit hundred 

 thousand trees remains to be seen. At the present time I 

 should not be alarmed. I see that that question is numbered 

 twenty-three. The best thing to do with that is to say 

 "skidoo!" But we have got to prepare for a marked increase 

 in the quantity of apples placed upon the market in the fu- 

 ture, and what the actual result is going to be the Lord only 

 knows, for I don't. (Laughter and xA.pplause.) 



President Rogers: I think we will have to draw the 

 discu'ssiion of these questions to a close at this time. We have 

 got quite a program to carry out, and I will now call for the 

 first address of the morning, on the "Results of Spraying Ex- 

 periments in 1911 on Apples and Peaches." Tt certainly gives 

 me pleasure to introduce to you Dr. G. P. Clinton of the New 

 Haven Experiment Station. 



