Mr. Street:  No, by doing something so much different from what anybody else is doing you get people to talking.  I think the Wolf River apple together with the Terry and Surprise plums have been the cause of getting started.  Of course, the McIntosh now is helping out, too.  You give a person a few Wolf River, not for eating but for cooking, and then give him a Wealthy or something like that to eat—­they will be looking at the big Wolf River and eating the other and seem to be well satisfied and always come back.  Whenever we sell to the stores we always gauge our prices so that the majority of their customers will take our fruit before taking the shipped in fruit from Chicago.  We find with grapes we can charge about five cents a basket more than they retail the Michigan grapes for.

[Illustration:  View in eleven year old orchard of H. G. Street.]

For native plums we get more than they do for the Michigan fruit.  We have had quite a good many of the Burbank plums, but we cannot sell over one-third as many as we do of the natives.

A Member:  You don’t ship them, so don’t consider the packing?

Mr. Street:  The only ones we ship are those ordered by people coming there or by letter.  If they want a bushel we pack them in a bushel box.  If they want three or six bushels then we pack them in barrels.

Mr. Anderson:  Where are you located?

Mr. Street:  Just south of the Wisconsin state line.

Mr. Anderson:  I am located 100 miles west of here, and I shipped out 400 bushels of apples to the Dakotas last year direct.

Mr. Richardson:  How many growers are there in your neighborhood growing fruit commercially?

Mr. Street:  I do not know of any who spray, cultivate and prune according to the best methods within about 100 miles.  We always make it a point to give our customers good fruit, so that we are not afraid to recommend it.  Then there is another advantage.  If they come right there, and we have any seconds we can tell them just what they are, and if they want them we can sell them for what they are worth, but if we are putting them into a store, I prefer not to put in seconds.

Mr. Kochendorfer:  I think that is the advantage of disposing on a public market.  You have a chance to sell the inferior goods without any coming back.

Mr. Street:  The main thing is to use improved methods and try to outdo the other fellow.  Cultivate a little more thoroughly, put in your cover crop, not over-fertilize but all you possibly can; give the dormant spray; spray before bloom very thoroughly and again after bloom; two weeks after that again, about July 15th.

Mr. Richardson:  How many apple trees have you?

Mr. Street:  We now have ten acres in apples, but most of them are young, about three acres in bearing.

Mr. Richardson:  I would like to ask the gentleman if in a small place that way he hasn’t a better local market than we have here in the larger cities.  Around Lake Minnetonka they raise grapes, but we get most of our grapes from Ohio and Indiana.  I have wondered why it is that these grapes go to another market when they can just as well go to the Minneapolis market.  You know as well as I do anyone buying fruit in the Twin Cities always buy fruit grown in Ohio or Indiana.