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dont know what kind of birds they are going to get, whnt 

 kind of troubles are going to come. AVe think that we have 

 troubles enough and that if any of the members feel the 

 same as we do we should see the Representatives and Sen- 

 ators and have them look out that such a bill is not enacted. 

 It is nothing, I think, that we care to have the Association 

 take any definite stand on, but it does seem to some of us 

 quite important that such a bill should not be put through. 

 (Applause. 



Mr. Mead. I want to say that if either the browntail or 

 gypsy is ever got under control it will either be by birds 

 or parasites. It won't be by human means. (Applause). 



President. A question which is always uppermost in 

 the business of apple growing is how to pack and get our 

 crops to the market. 



The next speaker is Mr. Castner, who will discuss the 

 matter of Comparison of Apple Growing in New England as 

 Observed by a Western Grower. 



COMPARISON OF APPLE GROWING IN NEW ENG- 

 LAND AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 



MR. JOHN B. CASTNER, 

 Hood River, Oregon. 



Mr. President, Members of the Massachusetts Fruit 

 Growers' Association and Friends: I say "friends," be- 

 cause of the hospitality shown to me since I have been in 

 New England this trip and last fall. 



I have been asked by your Secretary to speak to you 

 on the comparison of the apple industry in New England 

 and the Pacific Northwest especially Hood River Ore., a sec- 

 tion which I am the most familiar with. Hood River is the 

 most free advertised apple section in the world, for the rea- 

 son that all other sections claim they are just as good and by 

 this admission place Hood River at the top. I have had eight- 

 een years experience in the business in Oregon, and my trip 

 through New England last fall while not for a long period, 

 gave me a good idea of how the business is handled here. 



It is certainly the hot bed of all the fruit sections, for 

 it was here the idea origiqated of putting up the box apples 

 in the manner in which they come on to your market here 



