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and that report was a report of a sound and sane 

 business man talking to his fellow business men on 

 the proposition of transportation. This is going to be in the 

 future the most important question for the fruit-growers of 

 Connecticut : the transportation of our fruit to market. Not 

 many years ago, at the time of the organization of this Pomo- 

 logical Society, all the fruit that was grown in the state of 

 Connecticut was practically grown by those who expected to 

 and actually did market it from their own wagons, and there 

 was practically no shipping out of the state. But the encour- 

 agement that has been given to fruit growing through the 

 work of this Society and its members, there has been planted 

 hundreds and thousands of trees in this state, and we have 

 discovered we have the best fruit land in America, and the 

 transportation problem is going to be a big one, and what I 

 want to touch upon at this time is our public highways as a 

 means of reaching the market. We are within one hundred 

 miles of the best markets of the world, Boston and New York. 

 Now you have read about these automobiles going a mile in 

 28 seconds, but I don't think the fruit wagon is going as fast 

 as that, but the wagon for business purposes is coming very 

 soon. It is coming within five years, and we'll see before 

 then motor wagons capable of carrying five tons easily over 

 ary and looking a good ways ahead, but it is coming pretty 

 charge, and what does that mean for the fruit-grower? It 

 means it is possible that the fruit from Barnes' orchard at 

 Yalesville in a few years' time may be put on their own truck 

 and brought into the city markets of New York or Boston 

 the morning after they are picked. That is a little bit vision- 

 arv and looking a good ways ahead, but it is coming pretty 

 soon, and lie is going to be able to reach the markets of 

 Springfield, Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport easily. 

 Now it is up to us to see that more money is put into the 

 country roads, and that we have our own roads instead of 

 having to buv the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad. 



President Eddy: I believe that completes the committee 

 reports that are ready at this time. Our next speaker is a very 



