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lated, but I cannot help but think, gentlemen, that there is a 

 pretty close relation between that ability and the amount of 

 fertilizer that is put on the patch. 



The President. The meeting will stand adjourned until 

 two o'clock this afternoon. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



December 14, 1905. 



Music. 



Convention called to order at 2 p. m., Vice-President Seeley 

 in the Chair. 



The President. If the speaker of the afternoon was not 

 in the house, I should like to have the Secretary read some 

 communications just received from two different sources. I 

 think, however, that if the speaker will shut his ears we will 

 read them even though he is here, and I will ask Secretary 

 Brown to read the communications. 



Secretary Brown. I think, gentlemen, it is due to you and 

 due to the speaker of the afternoon that a better acquaintance 

 should be established between you, and in order that there may 

 be a better understanding between you and him I will read a 

 letter received this morning from Mr. Herbert Myrick, whom 

 you all know. 



" Springfield, Mass., Dec. 13, 1905. 

 " My dear Mr. Brown : 



" Our good friend. Prof. Thomas Shaw, received a warm 

 welcome at Lisbon, N. H. ; also here yesterday before the 

 Massachusetts State Grange. I never knew a speaker to be so 

 warmly received by a New England audience. I hope he will 

 be equally beneficial to you. He is absolutely the best informed, 

 from both a practical and scientific standpoint, of any man in 

 his line in this country." 



Enclosed with Mr. Myrick's letter was a paper containing 

 what the Master of the Massachusetts State Grange said when 

 introducing Prof. Shaw. 



