May, 1915. 



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the people stopped the traffic so. 



Second : Another thing which the indi- 

 vidual grower could do is to send out small 

 individual cartons with a single apple in 

 each. Put in your card saying you are will- 

 ing to ship this kind of apples at such and 

 such a price, and send to a list of possible 

 customers. I believe this could be done so 

 as to develop a large trade and a particu- 

 larly profitable one. 



Third : We ought to do more demonstrat- 

 ing. If we show a person anything he is 

 much more likely to take to it than if we 

 merely talk to him about it. Down in our 

 part of the country you will find demonstrat- 

 ing going on in one store or another all 

 the time, demonstrating Jell-O, or Aunt Je- 

 mima's Pamcake Flour, or somebody's soap 

 or somebodyelse's tea. But did you ever 

 see anybody demonstrating apples ! I never 

 did except once out at Spokane, Washing- 

 ton, at their National Apple Show. They 

 had a room fitted up and the whole thing 

 put in charge of the Domestic Science De- 

 partment of the Agricultural College. There 

 were a lot of gas ranges along one side of 

 the room and girls cooking every sort of 

 thing you can imagine and a great many 

 that you can't, all of apples, apples, apples. 

 And then they had the best looking girl of 

 the lot going around and selling a pamphlet 

 on "One hundred and Ninety-Seven Ways 

 of Cooking Apples." This is a serious 

 question, a question worth looking into — 

 what can we do to induce people to eat 

 more apples? 



Fifth : My last point I will merely men- 

 tion. It is that we ought to advertise more 

 in the papers. We have some interesting 

 information as to what has been done in 

 this line by the citrous people. The mana- 

 ger of their association determined to take 

 up the question of what could be done in 

 the way of increasing the consumption of 

 oranges by advertising in the local papers. 

 1 hey selected four of the middle western 

 states, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa 

 CI think It was, amd put attractive advertise- 

 ments in the local papers, and as a result 

 of this they increased their sales in that 

 section between two hundred and three hun- 

 dred per cent. That shows what ran be 

 done in one single line of newspaper ad- 

 vertising. 



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 Bulletin 248, entitled "Strawberry Culture 

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^ Circular No. 151 of the Agricultural Ex- 

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'The Gypsy Moth" is the title of Bulletin 

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The Michigan Agricultural College, East 

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