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produced in the northwestern section of the state than in the 

 whole state of Oregon. General Secretary John A. 

 Scheuerle of the Hampden County Improvement League 

 spoke of the wark of the League in co-operation with the 

 Association, referring to the ideas and ideals held in com- 

 mon. Mr. T. K. Winsor of Rhode Island who won so many 

 prizes at the recent New England Fruit Show also spoke on 

 Rhode Island conditions. 



SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1914. 

 VISITING SPRINGFIELD 



The extreme cold had moderated and when the party 

 assembled at the Municipal Group for the trip over the 

 various plants, an ideal day was promised. The first place 

 inspected was that of the H. P. Stone Co., wholesale and 

 commission house. Mr. Stone and his assistants took the 

 growers through all the different departments of the busi- 

 ness and here we discovered the "fruit growers' cigar," for 

 although we were all offered the real thing by our host not 

 one quarter availed ourselves of the privilege. But later 

 when inspecting the banana rooms and the "freedom of the 

 place" was ours there was not a man but what accepted 

 THIS "cigar." 



We next walked around the corner to the new establish- 

 ment of the Frank Perkins Co. located in Market Square, 

 Here we found conditions which might well make firms in 

 much larger cities envious. In planning the new building 

 all previous experience was made use of and everything was 

 laid out with efficiency and economy uppermost. After in- 

 specting the refrigerating plant and artesian well the party, 

 which had been increasing in size as time passed, visited the 

 various storage rooms and then the peanut roasting room 

 where the automatic roasters were at work and where a 

 large box was filled wnth freshly roasted nuts and the in- 

 structions were for everybody to fill their pockets and the 

 trail of shells from then on testified that all obeyed. On 

 the way to the upper floors both elevators were loaded at 



