apparent early, l' it the speaker packed nuch more than the customary uoothbrush and 

 pajamas in the eld rladstone. One man doesn't carry so many good ideas around in 

 one head, not all the vray from Penn's \:oods. 



Delivering at a rate variously estimated by growers present I'rom UOO-^00 i/ords 

 per minute, Gilbert VJatts really laid it on the line to the olericultural set, ana 

 v.'hat the nan said ought to make sense to a lot of us these days, vihether we tend 

 an apple orchard or babbitt bushings, or vfhatever it is they do to bushings. 



Departing from strictly subject matter, i.!r. :;atts took a din view ol what >.■- 

 called "superimposed leadership," or leadership thrust dovm from the loftier top 

 levels, rather than springing from the grassier grass roots. Then, angling to the 

 marketing side, there's never yet a master plan been whipped up on the Potomac 

 flats, cr any place else that could solve everyone's problems for then, or words to 

 that effect. If you vrant to lay out a buck ninety-eight for a magic set (junior 

 size) you may "amaze and mystify your friends," but don't count on it to sell 

 squash, (or apples, or bushings). 



Then he hauled out and dusted off the old pioneer virtues. Cver-rated and 

 over-done? Perhaps a little "corny" this day? Maybe, (who knov;s when Flag Day 

 comes?) But scnehov/ it sounded level coming out of this speaker, and maybe we 

 would be smart to buy some pioneer virtues. 



Sure, vfe are forging ahead, but v/hen a horse is said to be "forging", lie is 

 over-reaching, clipping his forehand vifith his back, and it is still a job for a 

 blacksmith, a pioneer type guy. 



And then :!r. V.atts said something like, "Let's not be feeling sorry lor 

 ourselves." The fruit men, like the vegetable men (and the babbitt bushers,) iiave 

 had their good ones and their rough ones. Dut not yet avfhile in this country do 

 we have to mess around v;ith squash, or apples, or bushings if w"c don't vfant to. 

 ..e can always go down the read. 



One way to look at it is: there's aluajs some poor ;.;ac snatcher, somev;hcre, 

 retting a worse deal. 'Course if you have a scab crop, the fact that neighbor 

 Harry has tv;ice as much scab isn't going to put much more oatmeal on your table, 

 but Harry figures he is making out because he lost less this year than last, ano 

 so on. 



Farmer Experiments v/ith '.Veedkillers on Raspberries 

 C. S. Johnson, Barnstable County 



David Orowell, oimer of crow Farm in Sandwich, is one fanner who attenas th' 

 i;.a,iority of the local and statevri.de vegetable and fruit meetings. From June to 

 December, he supplies his successful roadside stand v'ith high grade fruits and 

 vegetables frf^m his cvm fann. The fruits that he grows include apples, p-^aches, 

 pears, plums, svreet and sour cherries, strawberries, raspberries, grape.": ..nd 

 nectarberr'.es. 



From the meetings ttiat he attends, he is int^restc-d .primarily in picking ij 

 iiiformation on nev: varieties that are parti cularl,-^ adapted to his roadside dt-.anc, 

 labor saving devices and methods, pest control material:, and their c'.pplicatijn, •: 

 in tht-. past fev/ years, he has been especially interestea in vced c:)ntrol infonu:. 



