5S THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



We used to drive to town with our products and sell direct 

 from the wagon to the trade or the consumer, but now we sell 

 mostly over the telephone and send the fruit in the next morn- 

 ing. As we had no teljephone connection a few years ago, we 

 established our own system and made connection with the 

 towns. If your telephone service costs too much you might 

 put up your own lines and establish an independent system and 

 get better service at less cost. 



Mr. Hale : Mr. Cox, we ha\'e a law here that we can't 

 ha\'e but one system. 



Mr. Cox : Go to work and have that law repealed. 



I was talking to a Connecticut man here and he had never 

 heard of a "girlless telephone," an automatic system. The 

 one making the call makes his own connection and does the 

 ringing and can get the party sooner than he can get the 

 operator with the old system. 



Mr. Woody of Colorado : I hope you won't invite Mr. 

 Cox to speak to you again; if you do I can't sell my Western 

 apples for a dollar a dozen. I appreciate the fact that not 

 every one can grow such apples as Mr. Cox is growing, but the 

 same thing is possible to a certain degree right here in Con- 

 necticut. I say that as a AVestern man who don't want you 

 to grow too manv apples here, too, as we are planting a great 

 many trees in the A\'est. I want to say that I appreciate Mr. 

 Cox's address from the standpoint of a perfect apple. 



Mr. Fenn : I want to corroborate wdiat Mr. Cox has said 

 in regard to mulching. I had some experience along that line 

 and know that what he says is true. Also we don't spray 

 enough ; I am going to spray more this year than ever before. 



A Member : I got a fine catch of crimson clover in my 

 orchard, and instead of plowing it under I mowed it and 

 gathered it and put it around the trees. I sowed clover and 

 liad a fine crop of it. It was high that year so I put it in my 

 barn after gathering it, and mowed the grass ofif a low meadow 

 and carried it and put that around the trees; the aftermath was 

 left and not cut. T would not thank a man to put a plowj^n my 

 orchard ; in fact, I would prosecute him if he did it. 



At the close of Mr. Cox's splendid address with discussion, 

 the audience was invited to rise and join in singing ".\merica." 

 which was heartily done. 



