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learn agriculture. There ought to be some way for him to get 

 into that agricultural college without being obliged to go through 

 college. When he gets through college he has got an idea in his 

 head that he won't work for his living, and then he tries to see 

 how near he can come to that and generally he fetches up on an 

 electric car as a motor man. 



Now about cold storage, I want to say this one thing. Cold 

 storage from a professional standpoint is not always correct. 

 They do carry it to such an extent that they fairly kill the life 

 of the fruit and when it comes out it is no good. They get it 

 just the least little bit too cold. But home storage, I never saw 

 that trouble at all. Now I speak because I know. I have tried 

 and taken home bushels and bushels of apples that have been 

 through cold storage and they were just about as good as an old 

 wooden ball — they were not good for anything. So if you ever 

 try cold storage don't get it so far down that you kill the life of 

 the fruit entirely. Give it an opportunity to sort of ripen up 

 after you take it out of cold storage. Cold storage for fruit 

 that is exactly in condition today is all right, as cold as you like 

 to keep it, and you will have to use it immediately upon taking 

 it out of cold storage. But fruit that you are keeping to sell 

 and has got to be exposed in the market must not be in that con- 

 dition when it is put in and it must not go so low down in the 

 degrees of cold. 



Something was said about varieties in my hearing yesterday. 

 I am sorry to see you people going down in quality of fruit. 

 Don't put in the Ben Davis even if the market will pay you for 

 them. There is going to be a time that people will demand 

 something better than Ben Davis or the Stark or such apples as 

 that. You people have got a good reputation for Northern 

 Spies, and stick to your Northern Spies. You can't do much 

 better than Baldwin, provided it is hardy with you. You people 

 must determine that for yourselves. I can't come from Massa- 

 chusetts and give you any advice whatever in regard to the 

 hardiness of your varieties. That you will have to test for 

 yourselves. But because Friend Jones over here can't grow it, 

 don't you think that you can't grow it. It doesn't take more 

 than two or three hundred feet remove from one spot to another 

 to get from a bad location to a good location. And when you 



