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of Connecticut is to-day on her farms. Instead of, as in 

 Iowa, who has 05 per cent, of her population engaged in 

 larming. Connecticut has only 12^ per cent, of her inhab 

 itants engaged in agriculture. What does that mean to you 

 and me? What does it mean that only one-eighth of her 

 population is actively engaged in farming? It means, for 

 every worker on the farm there are seven consumers, instead 

 of, as in Iowa, where there are two producers to every one 

 consumer, and it is "up to you" to cultivate the soil. It is 

 "up to you" to raise such fruit as we see here before us to- 

 night and be able to supply the seven consumers in the cities 

 and villages to every one individual that produces. 



ToASTMASTER Hale : None of our guests this evening 

 will receive a warmer welcome, I am sure, than our old 

 friend, Editor Collingwood of the Rural New Yorker. He 

 is here and will now speak to us on whatever topic may be 

 nearest his heart. 



Mr. H. W. Collingwood: I hardly know what to say 

 when I look at 250 people who have made a hearty meal out 

 of apples and grains and nuts. My only criticism of the meal 

 is that there wasn't enough apple to it. You ought to have 

 had two more courses of apple. ~Sly mind goes back to 

 about ten years ago when the Apple Consumers' League was 

 established. I remember going to the different restaurants 

 in New York, wishing I might get a baked apple. I w^ould 

 take up a bill and glance over it and find there was no notice 

 taken of the apple at all. There were stewed prunes and 

 California plums and dried apple pie, but no baked apples. 

 I called for baked apples and was told they had none. I 

 told them what I thought. The manager of the place came 

 to me and hoped there was nothing wrong about the food. 

 I told him everything was wrong, there were no baked apples. 

 He said he would try and remedy the trouble. The next 

 day I went to the same place again and they had on the bill 

 in red ink, "Baked Apple and Cream." The next day I had 

 a letter from the proprietor asking me where he could get 

 anything in the way of an apple for baking; he said a man 



