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growers belong to that association. Tlicy built a storage 

 plant that cost $40,000. And not only do they send their 

 apples there, but they are also buyers and sellers of supplies 

 at wholesale rates and small profits. I saw in one storage 

 room a large amount of arsenate of lead. They })ack a uni- 

 form package, guaranteeing that every api)le will be as rcp- 

 reaonted. They have won a reputation, and people buy their 

 product. We have better apples right here in Xew England, 

 but we haven't packed them properly and haven't labeled 

 them as they should be. The Oregon apples are packed 

 right and labeled right, and, on account of their distance 

 from the market, they are obliged to conduct their business 

 in that way. They did what they claimed, and they secured 

 a market, which compelled our people to form a New Eng- 

 land association, which is the Fruit Growers', and which 

 held a show in Boston, the results of which have begun to 

 show already. There have been many apples sold this year, 

 which have retailed in the Boston and Worcester market for 

 60 cents a dozen, — grown right here in Worcester County. 



Mr. Harwood. When I was a boy in high school Dr. 

 Fisher, of Fitchburg, advanced exactly the same thing about 

 fruit — picking off undesirable fruit, packing properly, and 

 getting a good price for it — that is practiced by ui)-to-date 

 fruit growers to-day. People listened, but few adopted this 

 advice. The condition in the northwest was such that fruit 

 growers had to adopt proper methods in order to get the 

 market, and the fact that they have done so has now forced 

 Massachusetts fruit growers to do likewise. Dr. T^vitchcll 

 speaks of Delaware and other places having fallen into line, 

 but Massachusetts has also fallen into line, — Massachusetts 

 and New England, — and the last fruit show in Boston was 

 an eye opener. There were Massachusetts apples there that 

 later sold for $5 a box. Some of these apples went to the 

 New York show, and they were the most attractive lot of 

 apples there. People passed around the hall, and, coming 

 last to the New F]ngland exhibit, they had nothing but the 

 highest praise for it. 



The doctor speaks of uniformity. " Uniformity " wasn't 

 confined to the apples in the New England exhibit at New 



