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Newtown apple the best. I think it has a finer texture and 

 a finer flavor. 



In 1875, my father planted forty acres of Newtown Pip- 

 pins, and the neig-hbors in that community thoug-ht he was 

 insane and would wind up by reaching an asylum. Eleven 

 years later, in 1886, the apples from that orchard sold for 

 fifty-two hundred dollars on the trees, and from that time on 

 commercial apple raising- was an assured success in that com- 

 munity. 



Nearlv all of the commercial apple orchards in Virginia 

 have been planted within the last fifteen or twenty years, and 

 to give you some idea of the growth of the business in that 

 time let me say this : We had a fairly good apple crop 

 last year, and we turned out at the station at Winchester, 

 where I live, about a hundred thousand barrels, and we ought 

 to add a hundred thousand barrels to that each year for the 

 next ten years, even if we do not plant any more than what 

 we now have in the ground. So that, at a very conservative 

 estimate, within the next ten years, even if we do not extend 

 the operations which we have in hand now, when all of the 

 trees come into bearing, these orchards will turn out some- 

 where in the neighborhood of a million barrels of apples. 

 What I have to say is more specially in reference to apples, 

 because that is our principal orchard fruit, although the past 

 season we shipped from Winchester about 136 carloads of 

 peaches. Just over the line in West Virginia there is one or- 

 chard wdiich turned out about 150 carloads of peaches alone. 



Mr. Hale: I want this audience to appreciate what that 

 means. You say that you are going to turn out a million 

 barrels of apples within the next ten years? There are a thous- 

 and other stations in the United States that propose to do 

 the same. What are you going to do with a thousand million 

 barrels of apples? 



Mr. Lupton : Well, sir, I do not think your statement is 

 accurate, if you will allow me to say so. (Laughter.) There 

 is one thing, I expected to find just the same condition here 

 that we have in Virginia. It has always been a little sur- 

 prising to me that wherever Hale goes he always scolds 

 people, and people somehow or other seem to submit to it. 



