36 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



US are men, women and children by the millions crying for 

 good peaches, with money to pay for them, too. 



New York, only one hundred miles away, is the greatest 

 peach-consuming market in the world. In 1898, for days 

 in succession, New York consumed more than one hundred 

 car loads of high grade peaches from the South, at high 

 prices. One day one hundred and thirty-five car loads 

 were sold, and yet New York had never had in any quan- 

 tity as fine peaches as Connecticut can produce. Now, if 

 they will consume from seventy-five to one hundred 

 thousand baskets of Southern peaches in a single day, and 

 pay good prices for them, they would certainly take 

 twenty-five thousand baskets daily of our fancy peaches, 

 and give us big money for them. That would mean a 

 market for about thirty-five car loads of our fruit daily. 

 Then we have Boston, which is another superb market. 

 Providence, Worcester and Springfield are all good 

 markets, and there are many others that never saw a car 

 load of peaches, who can readily handle them day after 

 day, if the growers would only come together and form 

 some sort of plan to handle their fruit in the outside 

 markets. It only requires a willingness to cooperate; a 

 contribution of cash at the start, and the pooling of inter- 

 ests in the hands of a few, to insure an increase of from 

 fifteen to twenty-five per cent in the net returns to every 

 orchardist with two thousand or three thousand trees or 

 less. The larger growers can better take care of them- 

 selves, yet no doubt would willingly cooperate with any 

 committee that might be formed. For the more thorough 

 and intelligent the distribution, the better it would be for 

 all concerned; for while it would not be for the interest of 

 the largest growers to go into a combination on equal 

 terms with the smallest growers, they could no doubt be of 

 great benefit to smaller planters, without in any way sacri- 

 ficing any of their interests already established. 



For himself, personally, Mr. Hale said his Hartford 

 local market for some years past had been spoiled by the 

 small growers running over one another to take any price 

 they could get; so he had been forced at considerable 



