76 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Xow that is mv case. I am not here to tell why those people 

 in \\'estern Xew York allowed themselves to be caught in 

 such a snap, but I suppose in the years that have gone by they 

 have been able to get $2.50 to $3.00 for their apples, and when 

 the buyers went there and told them that they were going to 

 buy for $1.50, the growers rebelled and said that they would 

 have to come to their prices, or else they would not buy them 

 anywhere. I don't know as I blame the growers for trying to 

 get a fair price, and perhaps for holding oflf a little, and you 

 want to remember that they did not have any of these fellows 

 with big cold storage houses in which the apples of the prgduc- 

 ers could be stored and taken care of until the prices were bet- 

 ter. They had to sell, and the buyers felt that they could af- 

 ford to wait. They finally compromised, but it was done at 

 such a late day that the growers could not get all the apples 

 into the barrels, and there were a good many of them that went 

 to waste. 



Mr. Lupton : Mr. President, there may be some people here 

 to-day that will not be here to-morrow, and I just want to make 

 one statement that I rather expected to make in my address 

 to-morrow. It is in reply to a suggestion made by Air. Cross, 

 and also in reply to one of the questions on your list, ^^'hat 

 can you do to avoid such a situation as occurred in Xew York 

 last year? That is not the exact question, but it is practically 

 the same thing. Xow I want to tell you what we have in \'ir- 

 ginia. In my home we have a little organization that we call 

 the Frederick County Fruit Growers' Association. We have 

 a secretary, and it so happens that that secretary is also now a 

 member of the Pomological Society of Connecticut, (laughter). 

 That secretary is authorized by that society to put himself in 

 communication with every kindred association in the United 

 States. Last year he must have communicated with nearly 160 

 secretaries of diiterent organizations, and he secured all the 

 information he could from every agricultural department, and 

 it is a clear fact, but some people there do have more home in- 

 formation than anywhere else we can find it. Xow when our 

 secretary has exhausted every means of getting information as 

 to the fruit crop, that report is made to our local organiza- 

 tion bv tlie local secretary, so that we have reallv more accurate 



