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I said that was impossible, I knew where they came from, 

 and I would give her a dollar a piece for every four-year-old 

 tree she sent me. They had made a fall growth, as well as 

 their spring growth, and those folks didn't know it. 

 V Laughter). Now, know what you know; be sure of what 

 you know, and then you are ready to go ahead. Know that 

 you are right and go ahead, in this business. The whole 

 thing will depend upon yourself ; you will have to pay for it. 

 Get all the advice you can, and use your own judgment and 

 get wise to all the propositions you can before you go in, 

 and if you don 't know, if you are not positive what you 

 ou^t to do, you ought not to go in the fruit business ; keep 

 out. You can go out of the business all you like, enough 

 will stay in. I don 't think that as an organization we ought 

 to go telling that everybody should go into fruit-growing. 

 We don't want everybody in. We want those men in that 

 will do the most good. This idea of filling the country up 

 with a lot of people is not real economy, not rational. We 

 : don't necessarily want the little farm well tilled; we want 

 the efficient farm well tilled. In our section a 200-acre farm 

 properly run will turn off more stuff to the city than will 

 four fifty-acre farms with families thereon. The measure 

 of economy is the amount you produce, and the cost at which 

 you produce it. There is an economic side, and that eco- 

 nomic side is going to prevail in spite of everything. There 

 is the economy which unAvittingly you will be forced to 

 recognize, and the man that has conditions right for grow- 

 ing Greenings should grow Greenings: the man that has 

 conditions for growing 'Gravensteins should grow Graven- 

 steins. Find out what you are going to do ; find out what 

 you are capable of doing, and then do it. There are cli- 

 matic conditions that you can't change, and those you must 

 recognize ; there are soil conditions that you can influence, 

 but which you must consider, and the adaptation of variety 

 to your conditions is just as important as the recognition 

 above mentioned. You must consider all and then go ahead. 

 I thank you. (Applause). 



