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possibly more favorable than you will find in any part of the 

 United States. I can take ;y'ou into the -western part of the 

 State and show you a farm of 500 acres, with orchards ranging 

 in age from 75 years to 10 years, that has conditions which 

 are favorable for the successful growing of fruit, especially 

 apples; that farm has been famous for producing some of the 

 finest apples in the country. Many of you may know that I 

 refer to the farm formerly owned by the late Secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, T. S. Gold, and now being handled 

 by his. son. The conditions here in Connecticut are especially 

 fine in one respect tliat you don't find in any or many other 

 parts of our countr}-, and that is, we have the markets right at 

 our doors; we don't necessarily have to place our 'fruit in cold 

 storage, although sometimes it may pro\'e an ad\'antage to us 

 to do so ; there is a demand for a much greater cpiantity of 

 fruit than we are able to supply right at our doors from month 

 to month and week to week and we need to go on producing the 

 highest quality of fruit. If you do produce the highest grade 

 of fruit you will find there is a constant demand for it and that 

 demand will bring ])rices corresponding to the labor you have 

 l)ut into the business. 



