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urged to do so, would in time become good customers. All 

 these things must be considered in the future. 



Another thing- which I beheve we are working to is better 

 grading and classifying of our fruit. It is positively foolish 

 in these days to send anything but first-class fruit to market ; 

 especially from a small farm. The package, the freig-ht and 

 the handling cost as much on the poor fruit as on the good. 

 We are going to discover in the future new w^ays of utilizing 

 our seconds and culled fruit. I find a demand everywhere 

 for a guaranteed article of cider vinegar. I believe that some- 

 one has an opportunity here for putting first-class vinegar 

 in neat, small packages on the market under a brand and seal. 

 For years efforts have been made to secure a Pure Food bill 

 at Washington. We have not succeeded in getting it yet, but 

 we have succeeded in educating the consumers so that they 

 will demand pure goods. We are to take advantage of these 

 things by dealing directly between producer and consumer. 

 In my own case, we have succeeded in getting as much for 

 our windfalls and culled apples by feeding them to hogs as 

 we ever did in trying to ship them, or make them into evap- 

 orated fruit. These things are to come in the future with the 

 discovery of new methods of utilizing food and new demands 

 for waste products. Education on this line is constantly 

 going on, almost vuiconsciously it is true, but still making 

 progress. When I started to talk about the so-called Apple 

 Consumers' League, I was laughed at. Even when I 

 approached some of the shrewdest and best advertisers in the 

 country, they failed to see anything in it, and were not inclined 

 to help it along. Now within six years the idea has grown 

 so that there is a demand for an annual national celebration 

 of "Apple Day." Several societies have already passed reso- 

 lutions calling for such a da\- and giving good reasons for it. 

 I merely speak of this to show what can be done to promote 

 business by earnest and constant talk. 



Years ago, it was impossible to find a baked apple in the 

 majoritv of city hotels or restaurants. Now "they may be 

 found everywhere, and we are trying to induce bakers and 

 food stores in large cities to sell baked apples by the dozen, 

 as they do pies and cakes, or bread. If this can be done, the 



