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here for. There is another western apple and another New England 

 apple. Which will you have? 



The land is here, the opportunity is here, and the man with faith 

 is all that is needed. If those young men whom I saw at New 

 Haven Saturday had some of the faith and energy in New England 

 soil that they exhibited there, and if they would plant some apples, 

 instead of studying law and hoping to be Governors, they would 

 be many times better off. This is a greater opportunity for a 

 graduate of Harvard or Yale than in any other industry to-day, 

 and a lot more fun. 



We are running six or seven experiment stations in New Eng- 

 land. I think these stations are duplicating each other too much. 

 I think we could have the experiment station in one State work 

 on one line, and that of another State on some other line. A 

 uniform package law is another thing we need, and if you can 

 get the grower to get rid of the second-hand barrel and the box, 

 so much the better. 



Governor Guild. Do you think it would be well for the 

 Legislatures to take up the question of compulsory spraying? 



Mr. Hale. That is a very serious proposition. Under present 

 conditions, a man with a large or a small orchard, as it may be, 

 may follow the best of methods laid down by our experimental 

 stations, and if his neighbor over the fence does nothing, he will 

 be infested. Of course I am quite an independent Yankee, and 

 do not like to be interfered vsdth, but we never can produce our 

 best until our neighbors do equally well. It is a serious proposi- 

 tion. The San Jose scale infests the trees, and in Springfield, 

 Hartford, etc., where a man takes care of his trees and gives them 

 a reasonable amount of sprinkling, if his next-door neighbor does 

 nothing, he will probably infest the first man thoroughly by the 

 next year. I wish the disease were bad enough to wipe out the 

 fellow from the earth who will not take care of his trees. If it 

 would kill all the trees and plants not cared for in one year, we 

 would be glad. 



Me. E. Cyrus Miller of Haydbnville, Mass., Apple Grower. 

 In my opinion and judgment, the importance and dignity of 

 this conference demand that the words spoken here by each one 

 taking part shall be as few and well chosen as is compatible with 

 the proper expression of one's convictions on the various topics 

 under consideration. In the first place, I beg to say that I am 

 not dependent upon the national government, the State or the 



