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are certainly handicapped more with these than with ap- 

 ples and pears. 



In closing this list of our advantages, I want to men- 

 tion two difficulties which seems to me they face, and which 

 cannot help acting as a drawback to the industry there, and 

 consequently as a help to the eastern grower in the keener 

 competition to which we must look forward. In the first 

 place. I am sure that irrigation is going to bring increasing 

 difficulties in its train. I believe this is one reason for the 

 milder, poorer quality of the western apple. In the second 

 place, their trees are planted very close together, and will 

 soon need thinning. And beyond a doubt many growers 

 will not thin as soon as they should, with the result that the 

 quality of the fruit will be lowered. 



But whatever one may think of the relative advantages 

 and disadvantages of the East and West, no one can visit 

 this Pacific Coast section without wanting to go again, and 

 no one can get among the fruit growers there without feel- 

 ing that he is among men who know their business from be- 

 ginning to end and who come as near having orcharding 

 down to an exact science as any men on earth. I don't 

 know Avhether there is something in the air, or the moun- 

 tains, or the sunshine, which gets into the blood, but one 

 certainly finds a type of men out there who would make 

 any industry anywhere a grand success, and I wish we 

 might develop more of the same si)irit here in the East. 



The meeting adjourned for dinner. 



AFTERNOON SESSION 



Pres. Maynard called the meeting to order shortly af- 

 ter 1 o'clock and called upon Mr. Elliott Moore, who gave 

 a short talk concerning his travels in the South, Southwest 

 and West, during the past winter. 



Mr. Moore : From what I saw I have concluded that if 

 the people here in the East will put in the same care and in- 

 terest that the people of those sections do there will be no 

 trouble but that we can produce as good fruit as they, even 

 better. They trim the trees when they ought to be trimmed ; 

 ithey spray them and prune them just when it should be 



