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to do it before it is out of fashion. It is just so in this legisla- 

 tion business. Remember that it is the people here at home^ 

 it is the fruit growers in this assembly here that are going to 

 push this matter up or down; we are going to be energetic or 

 we are going to be slow, and we are going to make that law if 

 anybody does. The politicians in this country are not going to 

 make that law unless they are driven to it by the people who are 

 interested in apples. 



Now we want to consider just a little more the very conditions 

 which we are laboring under today as a commercial growing cen- 

 ter of the best late keeping winter apples there are in the world. 

 You may talk about the Pacific coast — there is no place on the 

 face of the earth — perhaps the Canadian provinces can grow as 

 good a winter apple as we can, but no better, they have got their 

 markets for theirs, they are going across the water and into the 

 Northwest — we have got these great markets to fill here in the 

 United States. I don't care if we never ship another barrel 

 to Europe, we can consume them all here. What we want to 

 do is to put these apples on the market in a condition that they 

 will bring the best price and that nobody will be afraid to buy 

 them. 



Now the matter was brought up here by the Massachusetts 

 gentleman the other day about those poor apples in Vermont, 

 and those poor apples found here in your little town. Now I 

 don't think it is any disgrace that those poor apples were found 

 out here in this store. There may be some persons so poor 

 that they feel that they can't afford to pay more than ten cents 

 for that package of apples — and it wasn't a big price for them. 

 I don't care if they were too poor to peel, — they could be eaten 

 without peeling by some poor child who hadn't money enough 

 to buy anything better. Now then, the Marks Law in Canada 

 and the one we are going to have in the United States, isn't 

 going to forbid us from sending our poor apples to market at 

 all. When you consider as the gentleman has considered, the 

 No. 2 is worth more money to the person who wants just actual 

 worth in those apples than the No. i. Why? Because the No. 

 I's are very large apples, many of them much larger than two 

 and one-half inches in diameter, and there isn't so much weight 

 as in the small grade of apples. You don't expect you are 

 going to get an apple more than two inches in diameter — or not 



