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the road and looked perfectly good and I said to Mr. Horan, 

 "Why don't they market those apples?" "Oh," he said, 

 "they are defective ones and we are not allowed to. You 

 could buy that pile of apples, but you couldn't send them 

 outside of the stale, the law won't allow it. They can be 

 made into apple butter or vinegar, or champagne, but can- 

 not be sold in a fresh state." Think of that ! ! Fancy what 

 our New England growers would think, and say, if the 

 state should step in and not allow them to market their wiml- 

 falls and wormy apples! Why the howl over Taft's reciproc- 

 ity proposition would insk into insignificance. Another day, 

 I was talking with a commission man in Seattle, about their 

 inspection laws. He told me that they Avere frequenily vis- 

 ited by the slate inspectors who looked through the apples 

 on sale, and if Ihey found a box with codling moth in :i. 

 for example, or with any orchard pest, they would put a 

 mark on the box, and a little later a team would call for 

 that box, it would be taken out to some vacant lot, saturated 

 with kerosene oil, and burned up, root and branch, codling 

 moth and apples. The owner would not only get nothing for 

 his apples, but he was obliged to pay for the cost of taking 

 them out and burning them ! If every package of New Eng- 

 land apples in the Boston markets today which contained 

 apples aft'ecled with codling moth or railroad worm were 

 taken out and burned, how many do you suppose would be 

 left? I fancy that the price of good fruit would take such 

 a jump as it never did before. They certainly value the 

 good name of their fruit out there, and this is one reason 

 why it has such a good name. And we might with the great- 

 est profit copy after them, I think. Some of you will re- 

 member a talk given by Dean Davenport of Illinois at the 

 State Board meeting in Draeut a year ago, in which he 

 spoke at length of the Pacific Coast fruit industry. And 

 he gave as a reason for this success that "they had learned 

 that two good apples were worth more than the same two 

 good apples with two poor ones thrown in." I often 

 thought of that remark in my wanderings in Oregon and 

 Washington. 



My fourth impression was of their climate, and I wftnt 

 to say right here that while we sometimes growl about the 

 weather we get in New England, it is good enough for me ! 

 I was in Hood River for most of three days and it rained 

 practically all the time I was there. We took a drive of 



