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nerve than seven-eighths of the men have to be willing to wait. 

 We can't expect in this State as they do in Western New York, to 

 get returns in four years. Perhaps their soil is naturally a little 

 richer than ours. We cannot expect to get much return for ten or 

 twelve years. A man must be a good deal in love with his busi- 

 ness to be willing to wait ten or twelve years for his returns. 



There are one or two things which I think will be brought up by 

 others in th^ir papers. That is the packing and sorting fruit for 

 the market. I come in here and tell jou such apples as I brought 

 here sold for $4.50 in Boston a little while ago. I brought here 

 Talman Sweets, packed as they should be, sold for $4.50 in Boston 

 a little while ago. I sold my Gravensteins for $5.00 and my 

 neighbor his Kings for $6.00. You all want to go into that, 

 there is money in it. Perhaps my neighbor will say that his apples 

 are just as good as mine and he will get only half the money. It 

 is the sorting and the packing. Putting only No. 1 apples in No. 

 1 barrels, and No. 1 all the way through. I think Mr. Brown and 

 Mr. True will take up this topic and I will leave this matter to 

 them. 



Mr.H. W. Broavx : The topic wliich I shall introduce has been 

 brought up in all oar meetings, and has been argued on ever since 



1 belonged to the Society ; still it is one that every farmer in the 

 State of Maine should be interested in. In my own business, I 

 have been, in the apple season, in the Boston market. I have been 

 so situated that I could overlook the market closely. I have been 

 on the market for the past month nearly every da}^ and when I saw 

 a lot of fruit from'the State of Maine or anywhere else that I wanted 

 to overhaul I did it, I had that privilege given me. 



Some apples were sent to a friend of mine. The man who lieaded 

 up the barrel was afraid he was going to bruise them when he put 

 the head in, consequently there was not a perfect apple in the 

 barrel. That is the way a great many apples are packed. I see 

 very few apples in the market that are packed as they should be. 

 As I was going by'lhe'apples in the market. I saw apples from our 

 friend Mr. Staples, and they were packed perfectly and I knew 

 them as soon as I^saw them. 



Boston market wants a fine apple and they are willing to pay for 

 it. Such a year as last year it would be better to throw away No. 



2 than send them 'to the Boston market. They will not pay for 

 marketing them. If^ you ship straight No. 1 you will get a fair 

 price for your fruit. 



