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parative keeping qualities? 



Mr. Castner. It all depends on where they are grown. 

 That is very easyy to expl.^in. It is just simply a ease of 

 not being able to put your conscience in a barrel or a box. 

 There is the secret of the whole business. Applause). 

 Mrs. Buckley. And the remedy? 



Mr. Castner. That will have to come afterwards. I 

 tell you, the remedy is coming slowly, but is is bound to 

 come surely. The people who will acknowledge that there 

 is money in putting up fancy grades of fruit are going t3 

 make the money. Poor stuff will have to stand aside, be- 

 cause people will take the good fruit every time. 



Mrs. Buckley. I understand you have in Hood Eiver 

 an organization? 



Mr. Castner. "We do. 



Mrs. Buckley. Does this control this conscience busi- 

 ness? 



Mr. Castner. It does. (Applause). This, and the 

 laws we have. 



Mrs. Buckley. That is what we need in New England? 

 Mr. Castner. It is. 



Mrs. Buckley. That is the point I wanted. 

 Mr. Castner. I Avill tell you. it is going to be a pretty 

 hard thing for a good many of the old time growers to live 

 up to some of those ideas, and it is hard for them to see 

 that they have got to step aside for some of the younger 

 generation. It is going to be the younger generation who are 

 going to get the success, while a good many of the old^r 

 ones are going on in the same old way. 



Mrs. Buckley. That is the lesson I think we ought t."> 

 learn from your talk. 



]Mr. Castner. "We had the same trouble years ago. The 

 people who have made a success out there have been the 

 fighting spirits of the New England people have made that 

 western country. I think you have got enough left here 

 to pass some of these laws. (Applause). 



A Member. How drastic are your laws? 



Mr. Castner. In regard to spraying? 



A Member. Yes. 



Mr. Castner. I am a County Fruit inspector there. If 



