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Massachusetts. Here in Massachusetts 65 per cent of all 

 apple trees are Baldwins. I should not plant Baldwins at 

 all, because everybody else has. If there is any place in 

 the world where appl'es can be sold, it is in Massachusetts. 



The Chair. I wish our old friend, Mr. E. W. Wood of 

 West Newton, would tell his story about setting out an 

 orchard with apple trees. 



Mr. Wood. I believe in growing for the market we 

 want to grow what the community wants, and there is no 

 apple to-day that stands as well in our market, and no apple 

 that is better if as good for export, as the Baldwin apple. 



President H proposed to set out an orchard of 600 trees, 



and he went to inquire of a fruit house in the city that does 

 the largest fruit business concerning what variety of tree 

 he had better set out. Meeting one of the firm, he said : 

 " Mr. Curtis, I propose to set out 600 apple trees. I would 

 like to have you tell me what variety I .shall buy." " What 

 do you want them for, — for the market?'* " Yes," he re- 

 plied. After thinking a minute, Mr. Curtis said: "Put 

 out 500 Baldwins." "Very well, what shall the other 100 

 be?" he asked. "Well," he said, " do you mean them for 

 an entirely commercial enterprise ? " " Yes," was the reply ; 

 "T have planted all ni}- trees for my home consumption, 

 and these are to sell." " Put out the other 100 Baldwins," 

 said Mr. Curtis. That was after forty years' experience in 

 the wholesale fruit business, in the largest concern in the 

 city of Boston. 



The foreign market is one that our people should look 

 to. It is increasing every year in its demand, and the 

 facilities for shipping have improved through our cold 

 storasfe methods. 



This year has been a most fruitful year, and apples have 

 been bringing $1.75 per barrel at the depot in New Hamp- 

 shire. Is there any other product that the New England 

 man can grow out of the ground with as little expenditure 

 for cultivation and fertilizer that is paying the profit that 

 apples will at $1.75 a barrel? 



I am sorr}' not to see more young men in this audience ; 

 those are the men we want to meet. If I were a young man 



