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far below the original cost of the property in question. Young 

 orchards are in the process of being set out and it is his evident 

 intention to make apple growing the principal feature of his 

 venture into agriculture. -- 



I am informed that a farmer in South Amherst secured 

 twenty barrels of apples from two Mackintosh Red trees, 

 twenty years old, which he sold at four dollars per barrel. 

 If he had an acre of such trees, fifty trees to the acre, his gross 

 income from it would have been $2,000 or ten per cent, of 

 $20,000, which, according to the Oregon method of selling, 

 would have warranted his asking that sum for the acre. In 

 the language of the late lamented Colonel Sellers, 'There's 

 millions in it." 



One interesting effect of the New England Fruit Show was 

 that it inspired the article which most of you have seen in the 

 October magazine number of the Outlook, on ''Golden New 

 England." The author tells me that he was first awakened to 

 the possibilities of New England agriculture by a visit to the 

 Show, and that this article, with its special emphasis upon 

 apple growing, was a direct result of that visit. I am firmly 

 convinced that he has not overstated his case and that we shall 

 see many inquiries and purchases of New England farm prop- 

 erty, in fact a genuine boom in such property in the next few 

 years. 



A development of the apple business in the last few years 

 worthy of note is the interest taken in it by business and pro- 

 fessional men. The example previously referred to is of one 

 such. In addition Governor Eben S. Draper and Col. John E. 

 Thayer, of Lancaster, have both been attracted to the possi- 

 bilities of apple growing in Massachusetts and have gone into 

 the business extensively and scientifically, both with old and 

 young orchards, practising the most approved methods and 

 producing fruit of the very first quality. 



What does this awakening mean? It means that at last 

 New England is coming into her own, that the day of ruinous 

 competition with the western fruit is passing, that within the 

 next generation we are to have the Western growers fighting, 



