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Massachusetts has thousands of acres of land upon which, with 

 eqxal skill and business enterprise, the perishable fruits can be as 

 cheaply grown as in the south. 



Here the peach has produced paying crops on an average two 

 years in five ; the grape crop is sure to ripen on land suited to its 

 growth four years in five ; the raspberry and blackberry, with a 

 little protection, will produce a paying crop every year, and the 

 strawberry, except in cases of late frosts and extreme drouth, 

 seldom fails to produce a profitable crop. 



The fact that our markets are " at our doors" gives us a great 

 advantage in the competition with imported fruit, and should 

 enable us to produce better fruit at equally low prices and still 

 leave a larger margin for profit than the southern grower can 

 possibly have. 



Viewed in this light, we would urge all growers and dealers to 

 make an earnest effort to show the consumers that home-grown fruit 

 is far better, more healthful and cheaper than that shipped in from a 

 long distance, and that it is Jar better for them to wait for the 

 home-groivn ptroduct, ivhich is at once more healthful and palatable 

 and cheaper, than to purchase that which is neither ivholesome nor 

 palatable. 



S. T. Maynakd, 



Pornologist. 



