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ber ones ; so you can see the three or four barrels are away 

 ahead of fancy. 1 am pleased to be with you, and I hope it 

 will always be my privilet^e to unite with this association in 

 its annual meetings. I have had a pleasant time, and I thank 

 you all. 



President Eddy: Can we have just another word from 

 our friend from New Jersey, Mr. Skillman? He is going to 

 leave us very soon, but I think he is in the hall now. 



Mr. Skillman : I realize that this is complimentary, and 

 I appreciate it, but I don't want to say much ; I talked enough 

 yesterday, and you don't want me to give you a double dose. 

 I came here as a sort of kindness to Dr. Ward; he is very 

 young (?) and I thought he would need a chaperone; and 

 so I will simply say that I am glad to be here, and I appre- 

 ciate your kindness, and will shake hands and hearts with 

 you. You have got an ideal society, and you have got an 

 ideal room to meet in ; it is the handsomest I have ever been 

 in at a fruit meeting; you have got an ideal president, and an 

 ideal secretary, and if you don't appreciate him you ought 

 to, and you had better keep him right along; and in addition 

 to all that, you have got still more, you have got J. H. Hale, 

 I say to you, go ahead, you are doing a good work; use 

 plenty of lime sulphur and salt, and I know the Lord will 

 reward you all. 



President Eddy: If I had thought it was going to be all 

 taffy I wouldn't have called on him. 



j\Ir. Fenn : I want to interrupt with a question. I see that 

 Oregon apples have been sold for $4.50 a box, the price we have 

 been getting for a barrel of fruit. Now doesn't that in a meas- 

 ure help to bear out the box as a package, Mr. Patch ? 



Mr. Patch : No, I don't think so. If you will notice 

 these boxes of apples from Oregon, you will see that every 

 apple in them is a fancy apple. You are all working to get 

 the most money out of your crop, and I tried to illustrate 

 that when I told you that if a man only gets three barrels of 

 fancy out of ten barrels of number ones, I don't believe he 

 would make so much money as if he sold his number ones at 

 $4.50. The few boxes of Oregon apples coming here have a 



