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procures a barn and all the equipage to train that colt and bring 

 that colt to the position where he will bring the best price, he 

 has his barn and all the equipage and feeds him for whatever 

 the colt is designed to be, that he may get for it the best price. 

 Now on the apple question, the apple business, I have noticed 

 in our part of New England that the farmer works for and 

 wants to get an up-to-date orchard, fine apple orchard ; he works 

 the trees and the soil and he studies all the requirements of 

 that orchard. The trees come into bearing in fine condition 

 perhaps and the crop is grown and he works all the season to 

 get a good growth to his apples and a good color to his apples, 

 and to get them in the finest condition, and then what? Sell 

 them. Sell them, is all he thinks of, is all the commercial inter- 

 ests of the country think of. Let the farmer sell them no matter 

 whether those apples are grown by him for next February 

 market or for today. Sell them ! That is what the commercial 

 interests of the country demand and it is what they want. They 

 want the farmer to produce the apple and let the commission 

 man or the fruit man, the commercial man, have the profits. 

 We of New England have got tired of this. We want the 

 profits ourselves. Let the commercial man have his profits 

 after we have put those apples on the market at a time when 

 they need them, when the market demands them. For instance 

 the Snow apple is demanded on the market in October and 

 November, through the holidays, sometimes lasts even till Christ- 

 mas ; then the King and Spitzenburg, those apples are displayed 

 on the market during the holidays, and the Rhode Island Green- 

 ing and that class of apples ; in January and February the 

 market demands the Spies and later on the Baldwin and the 

 Russets. Now what farmer wants to put the Snow on the 

 market in February and March ? There is no demand for them. 

 They may be well preserved in good storage but nobody wants 

 them. The market isn't calling for them. It is no time to put 

 them onto the market. Some dealers do hold a few for special 

 customers, but no dealer ever was known to hold a whole storage 

 of Snows for the February market. They don't demand them. 

 They don't want them. Then why should we New England 

 farmers place our Northern Spies and our Baldwins, such 

 beautiful apples, such long keeping apples — such grand apples 

 as you have on these tables here today, — put them on the market 



