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points were brought out by Mr. Hittinger as we made the 

 rounds. The people ate their lunch in the packing house 

 and scatterd about the grounds and again the "ginger 

 pop" was popular. ('We believe we have discovered the 

 fruit growers' beverage and "cigar") 



While Mr. Hittinger was conducting a party of late 

 arrivals the others gathered under the big apple trees and 

 Mr. John C. Orcutt, the new Secretary ofthe Committee on 

 Agriculture of the Boston Chamber of Commerce was intro- 

 duced and told of the plans of the committee in the study of 

 marketing conditions. Mr. Charles W. Mann of Methuen 

 spoke on the conditions of the peach market quoting 80 big 

 California peaches for 60 cents and retailing at 15 cents a 

 dozen. This was bound to affect the price of natives. His 

 market method was to get the customer's eye. He raised 

 40.000 baskets of strawberries a year. Mr. George W. 

 Smith of Wellesley gave his experience in home marketing 

 strawberries and spoke on the single tax. Mr. George W. 

 R. Harriman gave a talk on the marketing problem which 

 he divided into three parts ; the producing part, the trans- 

 portation part and the marketing part. He took up the 

 transportation end and explained the situation and the dif- 

 ficulties therein. When the time came for breaking up, all 

 felt that a very profitable and pleasurable day had been 

 spent. 



GRANVILLE 



The meeting with Mr, William C. Hansen on the Sodom 

 Mountain Road, Granville, Wednesday, September 3, 1913, 

 came earlier in the month than the Secretary had expected, 

 and owing to a peach rush in ripening just at this time he 

 missed the good time in Hampden County. The League 

 again furnished transportation from trolley to farm and the 

 visitors were shown through the splendid orchard with its 

 heavily laden crop. The trees have all been renovated 

 within the last three years, bearing a good crop last year 

 and a better one this year. Mr. Hansen had some especial- 

 ly fine Gravensteins and Twenty Ounce, the latter having 

 reached enormous size. The Baldwins bearing heavily two 

 succeeding years tended to upset the biennial bearing 

 theory. After the basket lunch, eaten under the trees Dr. 



