No. 4.] RIGHTS OF THE PRODUCER. Ill 



York, for potatoes, onions, corn and market-garden products 

 were just as uniform, and they were not oversized, as were 

 some of the western products. The Boston Market Gar- 

 deners' Association had an exhibit put up by Mr. H. F. Hall, 

 a practical market-gardener, member and president of the 

 association. I believe that that was the best exhibit of vege- 

 tables that was ever shown anywhere, and of the thousands 

 of people that passed every one said that it was the hand- 

 somest lot of vegetables they had ever seen. 



We didn't have a dollar to spend for embellishment. We 

 had to depend on the product itself. We got the best apples 

 and the best vegetables to be had, and arranged them in the 

 most attractive manner. We put a row of red apples, then 

 a row of green, another of red and another of green, with 

 a great block of red in the center, and so on. The vegetables 

 ^ran diagonally across the exhibit, and in the center was 

 parsley, a beautiful green, then a row of carrots, yellow, then 

 radishes, red, etc. We got beauty, uniformity and quality 

 out of that exhibit, and it was greatly admired, especially 

 by the women, who always appreciate those things. 



Mr. Walter D. Ross exhibited some Sheffield field corn, 

 a variety which holds the world's record for production of 

 flint corn. The management awarded ]Mr. Ross a special 

 prize for that corn. The thing I want to emphasize now 

 is that Massachusetts has the goods. All we have got to do 

 is to put them up properly. 



The time has arrived for the dairymen of Barre and this 

 vicinity to act if they want to get in on this Dr. jSTorth prop- 

 osition. I want them to get together and agree to put up the 

 kind of milk he advocates, and I have assurances, at least, 

 that there are one or two parties in Boston who are willing 

 to handle the milk, if the market can be established here, 

 A producer of certified milk told me yesterday that just as 

 soon as this thing was in operation his business was gone. 

 Dr. jSTorth, I think, showed clearly why that is so. It is the 

 same idea which Dr. Twitchell suggests here to-day, — econ- 

 omy in handling. Such milk would probably have to sell 

 at 12 cents a quart, but it would kill all 15-cent milk, because 

 the quality is the same. 



