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the land -which is not adapted to anything else let us plant to 

 forest trees, and in twenty-five to forty years they will be a bless- 

 ing, if we can keep out fires. 



In regard to publications, we are endeavoring to publish in- 

 formation which will be of most benefit to this State. I believe 

 it is a splendid idea, and I hope the keynote of this organization 

 will be that we may go ahead and do something. We have the 

 opportunity here in Massachusetts and New England, and I believe 

 we are made of the kind of stuff to do the work. 



Me. J. H. Hale, Feuit Geowee, op South Glastonbuet, Conn. 

 I certainly rejoice that you brought my friend Professor Craig 

 here to-day to say a word about New England orchards and New 

 England opportunities, and that you yourselves had faith enough 

 to bring that topic before a New England audience, because the 

 great trouble in New England in the past has been lack of faith 

 in the soil. You gentlemen in New England who have had money to 

 invest have been ready to invest in New England manufactures and 

 industries, in western railroads and western land, booms, but you 

 had not faith enough in New England land. Professor Craig 

 told you here to-day how some of you Massachusetts people go to 

 Oregon and other parts of the west and spend enormous sums of 

 money to produce apples. Here are apples grovm on that land, 

 and here are apples grown in Massachusetts. Which is which? 

 This represents $300-an-acre land, and this represents $30-an-acre 

 land. You New England capitalists will invest your money in the 

 western enterprise because it is 3,000 miles away, and you have 

 faith in it. I know of a New England orehardist who tried to get 

 some of you to put money in New England orchards, and you would 

 not do it. You had not the faith. I am glad Your Excellencies 

 have great faith in New England orcharding, because it is worth 

 building upon. As Professor Craig has told you, New England can 

 produce as beautiful apples as grow in the west, and can grow even 

 better apples. We have the soil, we have the climate, and, better 

 than all that, we have the market, — New England has the mar- 

 ket. This is a beautiful western apple, and it cost $300 a car to 

 get that to the Boston market. This is a New England apple just 

 as good, and the consumer is ready to drive to the orchard and 

 take it away, and if he does not come and get it you would only 

 have to pay $40 a car to get it into the hands of almost one-half 

 the population of the United States. That ought to appeal to 

 Yankees. That is business, — and I take it that is what we are 



