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lets the insects go where they are a mind to. Legislation is 

 something we need along every line of business transaction, 

 whether it is in commercial lines, whether it is insurance offices, 

 banking institutions, trust companies, or on the farm — the law 

 is what stands and the law is what we are going to stand by, and 

 let us make these laws when they are needed and make them 

 just as well as we can. Don't go slow. Study up these laws, 

 read the Fruit Marks Act, and read the considerations of the 

 societies along these lines in other states. Look at the State of 

 Oregon. Just a few years ago Oregon, when they first com- 

 menced to produce those beautiful apples that are almost beat- 

 ing the world today — some other sections are keeping up with 

 them, — their apples were all bought by men in California, rich 

 corporations. They marked those packages California fruit 

 and they went out to the world as the finest fruit that ever was 

 grown. California can't today, and never could, grow so fine 

 an apple as they did in Oregon. Pretty soon Oregon found it 

 out. What did they do? Did they go slow? The people, 

 the fruit growers of Oregon, got together and they called upon 

 the legislature to pass a law that every package of apples that 

 went out of Oregon should be labeled "Oregon Fruit." Simple 

 law. Plain law. No use going slow about that. Grown in 

 Oregon, let it be marked "Oregon." Don't let California carry 

 ofif the honors for this fine fruit. And after that California 

 people went down to buy the fruit and they had to sell it as 

 Oregon fruit, and Oregon stands high in the estimation of the 

 world today. And we in New England by proper legislation, 

 and proper agitation, and proper work, and prompt work, and 

 quick work, may bring our standard as high as Oregon or any 

 other State in the United States. Thank you. 



Sec. Knozvlton. Considerable has been said here in regard 

 to the Fruit Marks Act, and I think with many of us it is not 

 quite understood what that act has accomplished and is accom- 

 plishing in the Dominion of Canada. Now a gentleman from 

 Ontario is here and he can give us some idea, I think, of what 

 that law has done in the Dominion of Canada. Only a few 

 years ago, before this law went into effect, Maine fruit rated 

 in the EngHsh market higher than the Canadian fruit. At that 

 time as a rule I think the Maine fruit was put up better than the 

 Canadian fruit. They went to work and passed this Fruit 



