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t)e grown successfully. There was only a limited demand 

 for peaches then, and they were used mostly for canning. 



The consumption of fruit has grown apace because it 

 is an easy way to feed better, and people appreciate the 

 easy ways of living. The consolidation of railway lines has 

 made it possible to carry fruits farther, quicker and better, 

 -and tended to create an enormous demand for fruit. 



Various sections have their troubles in peach growing. 

 In Massachusetts the danger is in the winter freezing of 

 buds, in Georgia, frost, while in the South beside troubles 

 in growing, the distance of the market makes shipping a 

 great expense. There are hundreds and thousands of acres 

 of peaches in the South and West, that the fruit is shipped 

 to New York and New England markets. There are crops 

 that can be raised in Masachusetts that will pay well. For 

 instance, Rhode Island greenings, can be raised and sold at 

 a greater profit than California oranges, for they bring a 

 larger price per bushel then the oranges, and the grower of 

 oranges has freight to pay. 



What is the matter with us here in New England that 

 "we don't wake up to this opportunity? We have been 

 talking about these things here for 15 years, and yet all the 

 time every once in a while some of the young men and mid- 

 dle-aged men are packing up and going West and South 

 to an opportunity not as good as here. I believe there is no 

 ■place in America, nowhere on earth, where there is a better 

 opportunity for the doing good and having a good time than 

 -%i this northeast corner where we live. 



The Massachusetts peach grower has got too good an 

 opportunity. It is too easy to reach the people. I don't 

 think you have faith enough in Massachusetts, in yourselves, 

 'because if you had you would bring your boys and girls 

 along with you, I see more young fellows here than ever 

 ^before, but more of them are under 25. 



No peach orchard was ever grown in the United States 

 which was not first in the heart of the man who planted it. 



There are a greater number of disadvantages to most 

 states than here. The opportunities are greater, and I 

 know I make more money from my Connecticut orchard 

 than in Georgia. 



Of the varieties suitable to this climate Massachusetts 

 bas borne as many as any other state. The danger of 

 ■freezing is not so great, as new varieties are being grown 



