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was struck yesterday with the fact that you people of Con- 

 necticut seemed to think you couldn't grow such apples as 

 were seen in these boxes, but I don't agree with you on that 

 proposition. I think if there is any difference at all, it is 

 largely in the way the fruit is handled. And this morning I 

 undertook in a mild way to put up a job on some of you fruit 

 growers, so I went down stairs and took out of the Oregon 

 box the Spitzenberg apples which had been sent here at four 

 dollars a box, and substituted some of your own Baldwins, 

 and they are here before you ; one box contains Baldwins 

 and the other box contains Oregon Spitzenbergs, and there 

 has not been a man in this audience whose attention has been 

 called to it, but what didn't get fooled on it. I did tell Prof. 

 Gulley and I told Mr. Hale what I had done. I had a reason 

 for that. I knew if I fooled Prof. Gulley, when he went 

 back to college his own boys would laugh at him, and I didn't 

 want to put him in an embarrassing position^ and I had some 

 sympathy for Mr. Hale, but I had no scruples of conscience 

 about fooling the ordinary Connecticut fruit grower. (Laugh- 

 ter.) This box here contains your Connecticut Baldwins, and 

 this box contains a part of the Spitzenbergs and apart of the 

 Connecticut Baldwins, and you can hardly tell the difference 

 where the Baldwins leave off and where the Spitzenbergs begin. 

 And the point is that these Baldwins were sent here in a bar- 

 rel for a premium for the best packed barrel of fruit for mar- 

 ket, and your committee on fruit didn't think that barrel of 

 fruit was entitled to first premium, so really it is not the best 

 you can do with Baldwins. Now gentlemen if that is not an 

 effective object lesson to you people, I cannot give you one. 

 I was interested to-day in seeing a gentleman and lady come 

 down here and look at these apples, just a few minutes before 

 we began our exercises, and they picked them up and exam- 

 ined them carefully, and were delighted with the appearance 

 and quality of that fruit, they had never seen anything like 

 it before, and down stairs this noon, while we were going 

 over the fruit, a number of gentlemen came up to that box 

 and picked up those Baldwins and looked at them and discov- 

 ered the Bordeaux mixture in the blossom where they had 

 been sprayed in Oregon. Now you can see just what you 



