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come to the aid of the apple tree, the apple grower and the 

 apple consumer, science ; the science of horticulture, the science 

 of pomology, the handling of the trees and the plants, and the 

 diseases, insects and fungus troubles, and all have brought 

 about an entire change in the handling of the apple trees and 

 their production. The trouble is, many have heard the story 

 over and over again. We heard the first call of science to the 

 aid of the apple tree, we received those instructions, but paid 

 little or no attention. And so we got left in the great race, the 

 great apple race that is going on today, and our brothers across 

 the Pacific coast went and did what we had been told to do, in 

 the same manner that they were told by some experimenters, 

 by some scientists, 'by some few successful orchardists who 

 grasped the idea. They have made a success of it ; and what 

 has been the result During the last six, eight or ten years, 

 there has been a wondrous change in the markets of the world, 

 — the fruit stands, the grocery stores, and the tables every- 

 where, in the show of beautiful apples. Just take the fruit 

 stands and the groceries anywhere as you remember them ten 

 years ago, and then go today and see the bright life that has 

 come into them, say ten months in the year, almost the whole 

 year round, by the glorious beautiful apples that were grown 

 first in the Pacific Northwest, and as shown down here in the 

 hall might just as well have been grown here from the start, 

 but we did'u't get the idea soon enough. They have been our 

 teachers. They have been the practical people who have shown 

 us that beauty of appearance, honesty of pack and uniformity 

 of the package were requisite. To be sure, back of all their 

 show of fruit has been the great railroads. The great railroads 

 have financed them by the hundreds of thousands of dollars in 

 their fruit show, in their exhibits all over this countr}'. It has 

 been a land boom in the West. The object has been really to 

 sell land and not apples. It has been a general scheme to get 

 eastern money to go there, and hundreds of thousands of dollars 

 have gone out of Portland, and out of other towns in Maine, 

 have gone out of Boston and all over New England, to help 

 develop these apple orchards in the Northwest, and to buy the 

 lands and to buy interests in the community orchards where by 

 an investment of five times what the land was worth in New 

 England as a first payment and then constantly paying for a 



