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versally adopted and successfully and very profitably managed. 

 If one farmer in a town should plant ten acres of orchard and 

 care for it, as I have directed, he would, no doubt, make more 

 money from his orchard than from other crops he may raise on 

 thirty acres ; but if every farmer in the town would start in and 

 set out from one to five acres a year until all suitable land for 

 orchards was planted and cared for properly, then form a com- 

 bination or cooperate together (as can be done), the apples could 

 be raised cheaper, kept more perfectly, marketed more readily, 

 and at much larger prices than we now sell them at, than the one 

 farmer with his ten acres could possibly do. Buyers go where 

 the goods are to be bought, and any buyer will go and will pay 

 more for the fruit where he can get 5,000 to 10,000 barrels, than 

 to chase over the State to pick up 100 barrels here, 50 barrels 

 somewhere else and so on to get his wants supplied. 



If all the suitable orchard lands of Connecticut were planted 

 to orchards and well cared for, the apples would all find a ready 

 market. There is not the least danger of over-production. The 

 world's demands are larger then we can supply. When orchard- 

 ing becomes the one business of Connecticut farmers, as it 

 should be, then untold wealth will pour into our State. Our 

 farms will be valuable and salable, and our farmers happy and 

 successful. 



Those who put careful study, thought, and brain power into 

 apple orcharding, will be the ones who will realize the fact, that 

 the "apple" is not only a money crop, but the largest money 

 crop we can produce on our farms. 



At one o'clock the meeting adjourned to the Grange Hall 

 nearby, where the ladies had prepared a bountiful dinner. 



With the opening of the afternoon session Mr. Hoyt's paper 

 was discussed. 



In answer to a question, Mr. Hoyt said the Wealthy apple is 

 valuable as an early shipping variety. The best system of prun- 

 ing is to cut back the top and aim to renew the bearing wood. 



Mr. Whittlesey put the question, will fruit growing really 

 pay in these hill towns of our State? Mr. Hoyt said, we can 

 produce better apples than the West, and it icill pay to grow 

 them here. The market is ready for our fruit. We are near 

 to the best markets and to the shipping ports. Our people 

 should eat more fruit and less meat. 



