ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. i6i 



Mr. Foster : The appearance of fruit always helps to sell it. 

 A peach that may not he of the finest quality, if it has a beautiful 

 skin and an attractive appearance, it will sell well. Look out 

 around in our cities, and see the California oranges. They do 

 not compare, in my judgment, with the Florida or Jamaica fruit, 

 but they sell readily because of their good appearance. And 

 that is w^hat makes the Ben Davis such a ready seller. 



AIr. J. H. Hale : Are the people always going to be fooled 

 that way? You know what Abe Lincoln said: "You can fool 

 some of the people some of the time, and some of them all the 

 time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." 



Mr. Foster : Because that apple is a taking one in the market 

 there is no reason wh)- you should not try to raise good fruit in 

 Connecticut. There will be plenty of market for it. I do not 

 think we need to be afraid from over-fruit production. The 

 great question to-day is to grade, and to so market the fruit as 

 to make it attractive and salable. Very much of it is put upon 

 the markets to-day which does not realize anything except for 

 the people who bring it to market, — the carriers. 



Mr. J. H. Hai-e : You have said here that you thought it 

 imlikely that peaches from our Eastern country could be shipped 

 successfully to the English market. Now that is a matter which 

 very greatly interests a large number of growers. Connecticut 

 is getting to be one of the great peach states of this country, 

 and there is a great desire in the minds of the orchardists in this 

 State to be able to find a market abroad. Now I am informed 

 that Mr. Brady, who is in some way connected with the Ham- 

 burg-American Line has, for a number of years, made ship- 

 ments, but I suppose he has had extra good treatment. 



]\Ir. Foster : They will give him space which they have for 

 the preservation of their meat. 



Mr. Hale: That is just the point. What they can do for 

 him in that kind of a way can be bought for money. 



Mr. Foster : We have not been able to develop it. It is 

 going to be an expensive matter unless the steamship companies 

 will cut up their storage space into apartments, but I wish to 

 say now that our firm would be willing to help try the experi- 

 ment, and will stand a good share of the cost of taking peaches 

 to the English market. 



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