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in the middle of the barrel. All they wanted \\'as to get the 

 g-oods. What do they care about the reputation of any grower 

 or of Connecticut apples? Prof. Henderson says that the 

 Maine apples have gone down from the standard they had 

 five or six years ago in Europe and other foreign countries. 

 And why? Because they allowed the speculators to do the 

 packing. Now, when are we going to get together in Xevv^ 

 England and have one regular form of packing all over it, 

 and when are we going to get together and have our agents, 

 so that we may know what the chances are for a large product 

 this season in this country and foreign countries, and what 

 the prospects are for a price ; and when we do get together, 

 we wnll be able to say here in New England that our apples 

 this year are three dollars a barrel, but if anybody can get 

 more let him do so, but we won't sell under that. When will 

 we cooperate in every way to bring farm products up to the 

 standard? This is a matter which must be done through 

 cooperation, and I want to speak just a moment on that sub- 

 ject. We have been cooperating in the Champlain valley, 

 in just a little part of it, on this line, in shipping our fruit to 

 market. You know it is impossible for a man with twenty 

 barrels of apples to ship to Boston or New York, because 

 they are liable to freeze before they get there. But a combi- 

 nation of farmers can get together, and put in ten barrels 

 apiece, and somebody can get a car and we can fill the car 

 all together. Now the car we are shipping in goes right to 

 Boston, and comes right back to us ; it is in our employ, and 

 just as quick as it gets back we are ready to load it. and by 

 telephone communication I know wdiat my neighbors are 

 going to put in, and they put in all they want to. and I put 

 in the balance, because I have a larger storehouse than they. 

 We shipped a carload a week every week this winter ; last 

 winter we shipped two carloads a week, and the winter before 

 we shipped less than that, and we never have frozen any 

 apples in shipping, and that was done through cooperation. 

 This is not organized cooperation, it is cooperative work on 

 a small scale. Our dairymen very largely through New 

 England are cooperating in the sales of their products, and 

 are getting better results from cooperation. I want to call 



