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for what it is, and let it be sold for what it is. No one is 

 cheated. If you should put your fruit up as No. i and sell it 

 as No. I, with a peck of No. i fruit at the face end and the rest 

 poor, why then of course there would be deception; but if you 

 put it up honestly it will sell honestly and it is an honest trade 

 all the way through. You are benefited and the buyer is 

 benefited. I know that it is important that we send good fruit 

 to market. It is for our own interest to, but I don't want to 

 see a law enacted that tells me I shall do this and I shan't do 

 that. It goes against me, and I know it does you too. My 

 disposition is not so much different from what the rest of you 

 have. I would like, as I said before, to see a law enacted, and 

 that would harm no one, that every man shall put his name on 

 his barrel, the grade of fruit it is, the name of the fruit and 

 the place that he lives. That, I think, is all that is necessary to 

 do today. By and by, if you want to do more, when you get up 

 to this and grow your fruit good enough, — that is the time I 

 think to bring the question of legislation, to have restrictions 

 put on the packing and grading of fruit, and not now. 



Now this is about all I have to say on this line, and I know 

 in speaking on this question — I am satisfied at least — that I 

 speak just about the same as all our practical fruit growers, for 

 it was brought up at our meeting last year, and I think it was 

 when your representative was there and spoke in regard to it, 

 and one or two just touched on it after he spoke of it, and 

 then I got up and I told just what I thought as near as I could, 

 and I said — I used our friend, Dr. Twitchell's, own story, I 

 stole a little of his thunder, I said I thought we were just about 

 in the same position that the little boy was when the minister 

 asked all that wanted to go to heaven to raise their hands, and 

 all but one raised, their hands, and he turned to him : "Johnnie, 

 don't you want to go to heaven ?" "Not yet." And so I think 

 in regard to this law, it is simply "not yet." Thanking you for 

 your time and attention. 



T. L. Kinney, South Hero, Vermont, President of Vermont 

 Horticultural Society. 

 I shall have surely to dififer from my brother on this matter 

 of going slow. I never met an audience in New England yet 



