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not to monopolize the cream of our local markets, but to hold 

 their own in the markets of the middle West. We have every 

 advantage of location, cheap lands and nearby markets, and in 

 addition, we have the great determining factor of superior 

 flavor and quality. For the past few years I have had as a 

 neighbor a gentleman from Philadelphia, whom I have supplied 

 with apples. My fruit has never been anything except good 

 farm-grown New England fruit. This year he has returned to 

 Philadelphia, but he has ordered his winter's supply of apples, 

 without stipulation as to price, bemg willing to pay the top 

 market price plus the freight charges to Philadelphia, rather 

 than to depend upon the local fruit. He has tasted the New 

 England apple, he knows that there is nothing like it in the 

 markets of the world, having the means to gratify his tastes he 

 will have no other, without regard to expense. There are thou- 

 sands like him throughout these United States, if we can but 

 reach them and show them what we have in quality and flavor. 

 I am told by a Boston dealer that he yearly ships New England 

 Baldwins to California to a customer who will be satisfied with 

 no other apple. These being the undisputed facts who shall 

 say that we are not to possess the markets of the world if we 

 will but live up to our opportunities, raise good fruit, spray, 

 prune and cultivate, pack it attractively and market it with 

 skill and intelligence. 



