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world: No orchardist will hold that the Baldwin apple tree necessarily 

 grows faster than the seedling apple tree, or that it will make wood 

 and fruit on less material from soil and air. Neither will he hold that 

 Baldwin trees necessarily yield more barrels of fruit than seedlings, 

 nor that a given measure of Baldwin apples contains more juice or 

 human food than the same measure of common seedling apples. Fruit 

 growers do rightfully assert, however, that the market wants Baldwin 

 apples and will pay more for them than for common seedling fruit, 

 and that from this judgment of the market, be it reasonable or un- 

 reasonable, there is no appeal. Beef cattle have been bred for meat 

 production — it would be passing strange if they did not excel for that 

 purpose." 



