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farmers should do that? \Miat would you say if we waited 

 until some buyers come around and offered us a price which 

 was not satisfactory, and then we made no further effort to 

 sell our crops. What w'ould you think of an Ohio farmer, or 

 a farmer in any other State, that sat down and waited until 

 his crop was already in bearing- before he got any one to come 

 along and buy it? It doesn't seem to me that that is a very 

 sound business principle, and just as long as that method is 

 pursued, or that policy is pursued, the apple growers in Vir- 

 ginia are going to be all right. That is an answer to 'Mr. Hale's 

 question, too, by the way. 



There is another point I would like to make. I think from 

 the standpoint of a member of the Connecticut Pomological 

 Society, (and since I made my address I have joined your Soci- 

 ety [applause] ) the statement which was made here this morn- 

 ing in regard to a rule covering the quality of exhibits at fairs, 

 is a little erroneous. The chairman of the committee on exhi- 

 bitions, Mr. Bennett, who made his report this morning, made 

 a recommendation that hereafter one of the rules of your exhi- 

 bitions should be that no one should be given a premium for 

 any imperfect fruit. I took the liberty, as a member of the 

 society, to tell your reporter and the newspaper men not to pub- 

 lish that statement. The idea of the Connecticut Pomologi- 

 cal Society being reduced to the necessity of coming here and 

 making a formal statement that it will not give a premium to 

 Brother Hale or any other man because he says that bruised 

 fruit ought not to be permitted there. That is something that 

 ought to be perfectly understood anyway, such fruit ought nev- 

 er to go into the barrel either. That is the truth of the whole 

 matter. The whole proposition is just here : There ought not to 

 be any difference between No. i and Xo. 2 apples except 

 in size, ^^'ormy apples ought never to go into the barrel. ^^ly 

 theory is that a box should contain good fruit, and perfect 

 fruit, no matter what the number. You cannot afford af any 

 time to either exhibit or place inferior fruit on the market. You 

 ought to have your No. i and No. 2 boxes made up in just the 

 same way as is the rule in the West. 



Now. another thing. A few days ago I took up a news- 

 paper, a Pacific coast fruit paper. I noticed that Oregon ap- 



