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agency on a large scale, and what is 

 not moved through these channels will 

 be moved through incorporated selling 

 agencies ■ or incorporated fruit buying 

 concerns. Which of all these plans will 

 prove the most effective and satisfactory 

 is a difficult matter to prophesy. Theo- 

 retical plans will have to be tried in a 

 practical way before they can be accepted 

 as being successful. 



There are so many energetic, able fruit 

 growers working earnestly to solve the 

 problem that it is safe to venture that 

 marketing conditions will be materially 

 improved in every way during the com- 

 ing year. 



While a great many have looked to 

 see "Better Fruit" advise the fruit grow- 

 ers what to do, it must be remembered 

 that the editor is just a human being — 

 not a prophet — and recognizing that 

 there are just as smart, and many 

 smarter, men than he engaged in trying 



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to solve this problem, he cannot help but 

 feel that it would be presuming on his 

 part to give advice to those who are just 

 as well informed as he is. 



In conclusion, it would take nothing 

 short of a prophet to see the way clear 

 to point out a course that would not have 

 more or less stumbling blocks, and it 

 seems that the solution must come as a 

 matter of evolution from all of the differ- 

 ent districts rather than through some 

 individual pointing out the way. 



THE YELLOW NEWTOWN PIP- 

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 told that the people of the United States 

 were not buyers of Newtown Pippins. 

 We were told that the English market 

 was practically the only market, and up 

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Pleased As 

 Usual 



We are receiving many gratifying 

 reports from our spring deliveries, 

 which goes to show that our trees 

 are proving what we claimed for 

 them. 



You realize, of course, that if we 

 did not set out to give satisfaction, 

 wo could not long continue in busi- 

 ness. You must be pleased with our 

 treatment or we both lose money. 



A good many who waited until 

 late before ordering were disap- 

 pointed, however, for owing to the 

 great demand we were out of many 

 varieties. It's the same old story 

 every year. Always a lot who wait 

 until just before shipping time to 

 order, and then have to take what is 

 left, whereas had they ordered early 

 they could have gotten what they 

 wanted. 



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 May loth. It's a beauty and we 

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