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adapted to the location, and then give them the care and fertiH- 

 zation, the attention, the pruning and the spraying necessary, 

 in order to make every tree pay a yearly net return of more 

 than four per cent upon a valuation of $50, after ten or twelve 

 years old. 



Now that is not an extravagant claim. I think any of you 

 will justify it. It has been repeated so many times in the his- 

 tory of our growers, even under conditions which have existed, 

 that it is safe to make that statement. That being so don't you 

 see the importance of that illustration, and how safe an invest- 

 ment can be made today by any man who is in sympathy with 

 trees and will see that they get the care and attention neces- 

 sary ? 



I said in the beginning that some conditions were to be met 

 that didn't exist before. We run right up against them involun- 

 tarily. This nation was founded upon the thought of individ- 

 ualism, — the individual's right to do about as he pleased so long- 

 as he conformed to the law. The conditions which face us today 

 are away from that standpoint. It is the mingling of the indi- 

 vidual thought, the destruction of that individual life, which 

 has been so prominent in this country in years past — it is the 

 coming together and the binding together and uniting for the 

 carrying forward of the great industries of life, and what is 

 true of Standard oil, what is true of sugar, what is true of steel, 

 and what is true of woolen, or of cotton, or of any other great 

 industrial line, applies as well and will apply with equal force 

 along this line of fruit growing or any agricultural work of the 

 future. We must study this question solely with reference to 

 our necessities today, and prepare for the increasing demands 

 of life tomorrow. In order to do that there must be a bringing 

 together of individuals, and the coming together and massing 

 of our products in the hands of men who are expert enough to 

 handle and direct and control them so that the grower may real- 

 ize as he cannot today in the market. Doing this work in this 

 way we will meet the call of the orchards, and find our hilltops 

 are gold mines, for while we may not draw the metal out of the 

 depths with windlass or bucket, we will call it up through leaf 

 and bud and branch and luscious fruit. 



