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apples we raise are so pretty. l"he only answer I can make is, 

 that our country is a slick one. I am interested in horticulture 

 from a commercial standpoint. I want to live and have my 

 business where I can make the most money. The only way to 

 determine whether this is the best part of the country is to go 

 somewhere else and look into the fruit growing interests. \Mien 

 yi)U find the place where fruit is grown most profitably, if you 

 are to make that your business, why settle there, That is wdiat 

 I have done. I have looked the field over from a purely com- 

 mercial standpoint. I want to say to you that I like the pa- 

 triotism you Connecticut people show^ — and I find the same 

 thing all over the country, but this is not the greatest apple 

 district ther eis in the country. You have a fine country here 

 and I don't think you can find a section of the country that will 

 grow better peaches than wdli Connecticut. I know you iia\;e 

 had your failures; that the frost shave killed the orchards; 1 

 know you have been injured by the scale and other things, and 

 I also think if I were not in wdiat I consider a better country 

 for apple growing, i would come to Connecticut and plant a 

 l)each orchard. We are not bothered much with the scale. 

 When ii got into our orchards we threshed it out of them and as 

 there is nothing else around there but cactus and sand m 

 starved to death and we haven't been bothered wdth it smce. 

 It is the same with the moth. It is a day and night business 

 with us until we get rid of it. 



I believe you are going to win in Connecticut on the apple 

 crop ; as you have already won on the peach crop. Regarding 

 \-arieties. I don't thhik you grasp new varieties as the \\'estern 

 people do. Our country grows trees quickly and we are al- 

 ways tr}'ing new Aarieties. Wq ship to Texas; they would 

 take all the fruit we can grow. I believe the seedless apple is 

 coming. The Arkansas Black is pretty nearly seedless; it is 

 hardlv so juicy as the Baldwin, more of the flavor of the \A'ine- 

 sap and a hard meated apple; they are good croppers; hard as 

 bullets: tliat is the reason you \vant to grow them; you can ship 

 them all over the world. 



Mr. a. Warren Patch, the Boston Commission ^ler 

 chant: T onlv get the market end of the apples, and my views 

 have been expressed here so often I hardly think it is necessary 



