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would like to get rid of nie. You folks come in here with 

 your good clothes and boiled shirts on. Brother ]\Iiles and all 

 the other people, and they stand and sit around here as though 

 they were "it." You want to understand that you are mere 

 ornaments compared with those who are doing more than you 

 do in the extension of fruit eating. That woman who made 

 the apple sauce that I had for my supper is doing more than 

 you are to let people know what is good in the world. You 

 good people should elect that woman an honorary member of 

 \-our society — that was the best apple sauce I have eaten in 

 a long time. There are a lot of us who stand before the 

 people, who remind me of a story I heard of a man who had 

 been married four years. He came down to his place of busi- 

 ness in the city on'e day and said that he had received a great 

 compliment that morning. His associates asked him what it 

 was and he replied that his wife said that he was a model 

 husband ; and he was very much puffed up until one of his 

 friends got a dictionary and showed him the definition of 

 "model": "A very small imitation of the original thing." I 

 thing a good'manv of us are imitations rather than originals. 

 I don't believe I should know how to deliver an address — 

 all I can do is to talk. Now, about the idea of getting people 

 to eat more fruit. When I speak of fruit I mean particularly 

 the apple, because the apple is the king of fruit, the fruit that 

 runs all through the year fresh or nearly so, the fruit upon 

 which vv'e most bank our business for the future. The peach 

 crop is all right ; it comes in a lump and we take care of it as 

 best we can. I think the pure food law is going to give us 

 a better chance to can fruits ; we are going to do a greater 

 Imsincss in canning fruits ; but the good old apple, the old 

 red apple, not cultivated as my friend Hedrick has tried to 

 tell you, but the high colored, sod-mulched apple — that is the 

 apple and the fruit we are going to bank on for the future. 

 That comes in my line of business more than any other fruit. 

 Shall I tell you the method we use on my farm to reach the 

 consumer direct and increase our sale of the apple?" In the 

 first place, in order to get close to the consumer and sell more 



