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So the plan, as it is being suggested and thought of at the 

 present time, is this: there has been an agent in operation in 

 Bridgeport, Connecticut, Providence, Rhode Island, Boston and 

 Springfield, Massachusetts, and Albany, New York. There 

 could be, to advantage, we believe, an agent placed in addition 

 to these in New Haven, Hartford, Worcester, Portland, pos- 

 sibly Portsmouth or some other city, — a distributing point in 

 New Hampshire, — and in Burlington, Vermont, linking up 

 those different stations with a leased wire, and include on the 

 circuit Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worces- 

 ter, Providence, Boston, Portsmouth, Portland, Burlington and 

 Albany, — if you can imagine that geographical circle, — so 

 that news would be disseminated every day, and by noon time 

 you would know in Boston or in Worcester what peaches or 

 spinach or apples or any other commodity were bringing in 

 Portland or in Burlington. It would enable you to ship them 

 off on that particular day, and have them there at the earliest 

 possible moment to meet the needs. 



Now, I have mentioned three cities which you will regard as 

 being very limited from the standpoint of being market centers 

 for locally grown products, — they are Portsmouth, Portland 

 and Burlington. But they are to be considered and recognized 

 as valuable distributing points for the products that we are 

 growing here in New England. You take the coast section in 

 New Hampshire: although it is only 18 or 20 miles in length, 

 I am told that there are upwards of a quarter of a million 

 people there in the summer season. 



You go into the Portland section and you find it distributing 

 along the entire coast of Maine, which is 300 or 400 miles in 

 length, and shipping up into the White Mountain sections, 

 which are densely populated with the tourist element through- 

 out the entire summer months. 



You go to Burlington, Vermont, and you find them supply- 

 ing the tourists and the summer resort people of the Lake 

 Champlain section, into the Green Mountains, and the western 

 section of the White Mountains. 



Now, then, if we were to know there was a scarcity of these 

 products, or that peaches were bringing $1.75 in any one of 

 those cities and low prices here, could we not profitably ship 



