AFTERNOON SESSION 



Friday. January 16, 1914. 



The meeting was called to order by the President at 

 2.30 p. m. 



THE PRESIDENT. While we are waiting for the 

 audience to come in. I am going to give you just a few 

 statistics. We are asked constantly if we don't fear an 

 over-production of apples. Some of us have tried to figure 

 out the percentage of trees that are being planted now, that 

 are going to produce first class fruit, and we have agreed 

 that 10 per cent of the trees being planted now will be 

 taken care of in the future and will produce first class fruit. 



At the present time you know what the market is for 

 good eastern apples. I was talking with one of the big 

 grocers in a suburb of Boston, and he wanted to know what 

 was getting to be the matter with people here. He said, "I 

 can 't sell western apples. ' * That shows that we are educat- 

 ing the easterners up to demanding a good eastern apple. 



I have got some statistics from the census which show 

 that in 1910 there were about 480,000 less apple trees in 

 Massachusetts than there were in 1900. I will let you 

 account for that in any way you want to! That includes 

 355.868 trees that are not bearing. The totals were, for 

 Massachusetts, 1,852,046 apple trees in 1900: in 1910, 

 1,367,379. Now, the production of apples was 3.023,436 

 bushels in 1899 and 2,550,259 in 1909. being about 500,000 

 bushels less in 1909 than in 1899. You may be interested k> 

 know about Hampden County, which ought to be one of 

 our big apple-producing counties ; but I am sorry to say that 

 it comes very low. Hampden County had in 1900, 129,818 

 trees, and in 1910 had 115,264 trees, so you see there was a 



