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the grower of a high grade of fruit to succeed, more so now 

 than in years past, for now the individual grower has more 

 advantages in the way of study and helps from the agricul- 

 tural colleges. Results of this study wall show when a man 

 adapts the right kind of fruit to the right kind of soil. The 

 successful fruit grower must of necessity be an intelligent 

 man, not of necessity a college-learned man, but he must 

 make good use of his education in the line of work he has 

 chosen. As a result of the improvement in the growth of 

 fruit, we as consumers are beginning to have to pay for it. 

 There is no bank stock in the United States that pays as 

 good dividends as a good orchard. Think of it : I have to 

 pay thirty cents a dozen for cooking apples over in Hack- 

 ensack. I can buy oranges cheaper than apples. These 

 apples are packed in boxes and we can buy any quantity we 

 wish and know every one is perfect, and it is a very much 

 better way to buy them than in barrels. In the city, few 

 people have room to store a barrel of fruit, and hence a 

 smaller package is preferable and will be bought whenver 

 it is possible to find one. Our fruit growers have great 

 opportunities before them in the line of packing their fruit. 



ToASTMASTER Hale : H. B. Fullerton of Long Island 

 and the United States is with us and I want to tell you that, 

 although he is not a large nor a small fruit grower, he is a 

 pretty good all-around fellow, and we are glad to have him 

 with us to-night. He runs a sort of a model farm out on 

 Long Island. You know him. 



Mr. Fullertox : Neighbors, it is simply glorious to 

 come down here. I have been coming swift. I got a let- 

 ter from a man I am awfully fond of, and whom I think 

 of very often, asking me to come here. I knew he meant 

 business, so I came. I am here. And traveled 500 miles 

 to do it. I left the top of the Alleghany mountains this 

 morning and traveled by coach, by sleigh, by locomotive 

 trains, by ferry-boats and trolley cars, and I have arrived. 

 You can't do that — travel that distance in that time — any- 

 where else in the world; 40 miles an hour for 11 hours; I 



