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probably, will not care to follow out the line of experiment. The 

 director of an experiment station undertakes a work; he may die at 

 any time, the work does not die with him; on the contrary, his 

 successor takes up the work precisely where his predecessor left off, 

 and, however many individuals may die during the course, the 

 experiment goes on to a finality; thus, we see that the interests in 

 horticulture are manifold and, like the winds, ever changing. The 

 earnest man, is be, who reads and reflects, keeps pace with the varied 

 needs as they come. The man who never reads, never progresses, 

 and this is as true in husbandry as in horticulture. We required a 

 Watt to connect the possibilities of the steam engine with the 

 hissing of steam from the spout of a tea-kettle. A Galileo to erect 

 a system of the earth's movement from the swinging of a chande- 

 lier, or a Newton, the theory of gravitation, with the dropping of 

 an acorn from the tree. Yes, the interests of horticulture, great as 

 they are, are ever increasing, ever changing, and he who grasps 

 the passing idea and applies his art to working from it a practical 

 finality, not only confers a benefit upon the community, but if he 

 is a business man, puts money in his pocket. 



Mr. Minkler — The point of putting good fruit on the market 

 is a good one, never send any but the best to your market and put 

 your brand on it, sort it up and throw out the inferior. You will 

 get enough for the good to more than pay you for the trouble, jou 

 can throw away the culls and still have more for your crop than you 

 would have, had you sent good, bad and indifferent without sorting. 

 If you always do.this your fruit will bring a little better price than 

 any one else's, because people will soon learn that your fruit is always 

 good, I think the time will come when we will have regular in- 

 spectors to examine fruit that is sent to the market who will deter- 

 mine whether it shall be offered to the trade or not. 



The President here announced the following committees: — 



Committee on Fruits on Exhibition — J. V. Cotta, W. W. Wicks, 

 D. J. Piper. 



Committee on Treasurer's Report — H. R. Cotta, L. R. Bryant, 

 Andrew Dunning. 



A motion prevailed that the chair appoint a committee on final 

 resolutions. 



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