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ists believe that we grow the best tasting fruit there is to be 

 had. 



MR. HEARTY. And in your belief you are quite right. 

 Jt is a fact that you take New England apples and the west- 

 ern New York apples, and I defy any other section of the 

 country to produce any better tasting fruit. 



MRS. DEVING. But we cannot make the buyers be- 

 lieve that, the retail buyers. 



MR. HEARTY. You can, by improving the standard 

 of your quality and through educational methods. People 

 have got to be educated, and I believe that the New England 

 Baldwin apple has a better future than it has a past, and 

 simply because we have got to keep pounding and pounding. 

 As I said in my address, the west is having a taste of a Wat- 

 erloo such as we have never had. It costs them in the neigh- 

 borhood of $1.50 to get a barrel to the eastern market as 

 against our fifteen or twenty cents. I don't see where they 

 stand much show if we improve our quality and get it at the 

 same standard as theirs. 



PRESIDENT FRQST. I want to state, Mr. Hearty, 

 that these apples here (indicating) were taken out of cold 

 storage and not packed for the convention. These are the 

 ordinary pack from the farm in Ipswich. I want to show 

 here an apple that was picked in 1911. 



MR. RANNEY OF DERRY, N. H. We have heard con- 

 siderable within the last year or so about poor apples being 

 dumped on our market both here in the east and abroad, and 

 J think it has been acknowledged by several here, both by 

 the producers and commission men, that the apples are bad. 

 The question is, how are we going to make them good? I 

 saw in this hall this morning Mr. Hale, who possibly is here 

 now, a man who has had large experince in the handling and 

 packing of fruit. He made the statement in Durham last 

 summer that there were not twelve men in the State of New 

 Hampshire that knew enough to put up a barrel of No. 1 

 fruit. One man objected and told Mr. Hale he though he 

 was honest in his opinon, but he did not agree with him. 



