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where the}' can get it, and if they are not already packing their 

 apples into them they are planning to do so. 



"The peach yellows, as my friend, the Professor, touched 

 upon awhile ago, we had just begun to think about, and peach 

 yellows legislation, but within ten years we have not only talked 

 about it a great deal, but we got to work and put through a 

 peach yellows law. It was enacted, and put in practice, and 

 found to be a mighty good thing, but it was repealed. Why? 

 Just because there are so many farmers who won't think for 

 themselves. When you want to get any good legislation for 

 this Society, or for the Experiment Station, or for anything 

 that pertains to agriculture or horticulture, in Heaven's name 

 keep the farmers out of the legislature. I am a farmer, and I 

 have been there myself, and I know how it is. 



"We are having more competition now than ever before. 

 We are going to have more in every direction. We are going 

 to compete more closely and more sharply among ourselves in 

 the future, as we have increased the prices of our high-grade 

 products, and there is going to be sharper competition in the 

 marketing of those high-grade products. As to some of our 

 other products the prices have lowered from 25 to 75 per cent, 

 and while the prices are going lower the standard which will 

 be demanded of us is being placed higher and higher. I am 

 glad of it, not because it gives some people a chance to run 

 others out, but, gentlemen, the demands of the times are such 

 that in order to produce high -class productions we must use 

 more skill, and better tools, and higher class labor, and that is 

 going to be for the benefit of us all who stay in the business 

 under such conditions. With better tillage we are less and less 

 called upon to furnish plant -food from outside, and upon the 

 whole things are bright. There is a better opportunity for the 

 owner of Connecticut land to-day to make a living out of it than 

 there was ten years ago, and that opportunity has come largely 

 through the work of this Society. There has come a develop- 

 ing of ideas, and a general broadening out which has been of 

 great benefit to us all. Our opportunities are increased but 

 there is more demanded of us. You can't get along with 

 less. There is more work to be done. We have got to act 

 in every particular more with our brains, and more with our 



