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better opportunity for young men starting out in life, where 

 they can buy lands with soil admirably adapted to that pur- 

 pose, than to enter into the culture of the apple. While our 

 chairman has told us that he has learned, by studying the 

 quotations of the market, that ]Massachusetts Baldwins only 

 brought the same price in England, first quality, as the second 

 quality in Maine brought, which is certainly a discredit to 

 us Massachusetts orchardists, yet I believe we can do better. 

 It requires not only skill, but eftbrt and perseverance. In 

 order to succeed in apple growing, or with any other crop 

 which we farmers groAV, we must work not only Avith skill 

 and knowledge, but with perseverance. 



Hon. J. W. Stockwell (of Sutton). I have been very 

 much interested, as I always am in hearing a lecture of Mr. 

 Powell's. I am alwavs glad he can come to Massachusetts, 

 because he gives us so much to think about ; because his 

 experiments and his experience are worth something to us. 

 They are founded upon fact, they are founded upon keen in- 

 sight, they are founded upon true [)rinciples ; and therefore, 

 when we introduce what he has said into the book which 

 will be printed, we know we have something that is worth 

 while for Massachusetts to print and send out broadcast, — 

 something we can be proud of wherever it is read ; and we 

 know it is read not only throughout the United States, but 

 in other countries. I believe, speaking from experience and 

 from knowledge, it is the best-read agricultural report that 

 is printed in the United States. 



Now, with reference to the apple, — the Sutton Beauty 

 apple, on which your chairman has asked me to speak. It 

 originated in Sutton, in an orchard about two miles from my 

 old home ; for many years it was known only locally, till the 

 increasing demand for this particular apple and the higher 

 price in the market led to the giving it a name and wider 

 notice, and to-day it stands as one of the foremost market 

 apples, and deservedly so. 



The Sutton Beauty is an apple Ave Suttonians are all proud 

 of, and I believe it is one of the apples that are going to 

 take a very forward rank in this country. It brings a price 

 perhaps equal to the King, certainly in this market. The 



