1888.] TRANSACTIONS. 



ReviewiDg the apple-shipping season, not so loi>g a^o^ A. -^ 

 Lombard's Sons sum up, as follows : — ^s,^;^ ^ 



" This shows that the total exports from the United States and 

 Canada for 1887-8, were 608,588 barrels as against 811,410 

 barrels for 1886-7. Tiie shipments from Boston amounted to 

 164,268 barrels, against 306,693 for the previous season. 

 About one-half of the shipments were made to Liverpool." 



And being at Liverpool, the seaport of Western England, the 

 condition that confronts the Pomologists of Worcester County 

 is why an irrational theory should be allowed to prevent the 

 barter of our fruit for some of those superb woollens that our 

 " Infant Industries" refuse to produce until they are weaned per 

 force ! 



Of course, it cannot be necessary to remind this Society that 

 exports will be larger upon the bearing year ; and that 1887-8 

 could not be included within tliat category, which will account 

 for the temporary falling-oii in shipments. The Home Market 

 for the produce of our orchards we possess now ; and like the 

 Wheat-growers, we find it insufficient. We cannot sell our Ap- 

 ples to Pennsylvania; but yet we cannot do without Coal! Yet 

 Coal is a cash article, like a receipt for Taxes. Do not some in 

 this audience feel the chafing from that shackle, forged under the 

 stress of a military necessity, and perpetuated at the behest of a 

 political alliance ? If you can contrive to enlarge your market 

 so as to get 25 or 50 cents more per barrel, for your fruit; in the 

 name of common sense what should keep the shrewd Yankee from 

 pocketing such gain ! His own labor with that of his family 

 is Home Industry. Yet that industry is at every turn, subjected 

 to burdens grievous to be borne ; which, in their very levy, 

 are an imposition upon himself, of all men. Bj^ ihe sweat of 

 his brow is commerce built up, whether on land, or water ; and 

 as he prospers, so should our ships vex the seas. Of all men the 

 Terrseculturist is bound to insist upon the widest market. " By 

 their fruits ye shall know them ! " might, under rational legisla- 

 tion, be stenciled, in Covent Garden, upon the Apple barrels of 

 Eames, Rice, or Wyman. 



