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clamors for partial legislation to supplement the lavish bounty 

 of God ! 



Thanks to the foresight of our forefathers who provided in 

 the fundamental law that, 



*' No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported fiom any 

 State,'"' 



no ineptitude or stupidity of legislation can wholly obstruct our 

 commerce upon the ocean. It requires but industry and hon- 

 esty, on our part, to build up a traffic that shall be gainful to all 

 concerned. Industry to plant and nourish ; honesty to guard 

 against ourselves, chief of all, taking heed that, under no 

 temptation, do we suffer the high standard of quality which we 

 have once established to be impaired by the toleration of so 

 much as a single defective specimen. The Newtown Pippin 

 commands its present market largely because of the conscience 

 that Duncan C. Pell put into the management of his business. 

 Shall it be said that no other American can or will pack a barrel 

 of apples which needs no inspection because of the trust reposed 

 in himself! 



You will have noted that in the burden of my contention, in 

 this vital matter of a gainful existence for those who follow 

 Horticulture locally, I have admitted the possibility of a future 

 struggle with the pomologists of Nova Scotia for mastery of the 

 Fruit Market of the world. To those who dread such competi- 

 tion ; or who fear, even after the signal illustration of what can 

 be done in Worcester County which was so conspicuous in this 

 Hall, on October loth ulto., that we might not hold our own in 

 a keen rivalry with the seaboard provinces ; I commend a study 

 of the Government Crop Report of Nova Scotia which came to 

 hand after the major part of my argument had been written : 



"The prospect of the Fruit Grower is not very bright. In 

 districts where fruit is grown for home supply, there appears to 

 be an expectation of nearly an average crop. The two princi- 

 pal counties that send fruit into the general markets are Kings 

 and Annapolis. The following summary of their returns are 

 not very promising : — Co. Annapolis : Paradise. Great 

 growth of wood ; fruit dropping. Lawrencetown. Below 



