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people will be well satisfied with the results of your outlay and trouble 

 necessary to make an exhibit, when you come to look over the exhibits 

 from Michigan. Grand Rapids is so located that it should have the 

 very best exhibits of all classes. 



First, you must have the exhibits and then you must have the people 

 — it takes the two things to make a successful Fair. Bring yourself 

 and your friends, 3 our neighbors, even if you can not bring your apples. 

 We will do our best to have a better Fair next year than we had this 

 year, and the people seemed to be pretty well satisfied with this one. 

 T hope you will not forget what I say. This winter wall be a good 

 time to plan for next summer's work, and this should be so with every 

 man, and in the spring when the trees are in blossom, you will have a 

 few trees that you will thin out, and by proper care, spraying, etc., 

 it will yield the best possible specimens for show purposes. • We want 

 to make the Grand Rapids Fair a quality Fair, so that whenever the 

 people come they will say, "I can go to Grand Rapids and see what 

 is produced in Michigan, grain, vegetables, fruits, etc.," and people from 

 other states will say that they can not get along without them, and thus 

 a demand will be created for your, products that Avill make the demand 

 bej^ond the supply. And it is possible to do for Michigan by judicious 

 advertising just what has been done for the Pacific Coast states in the 

 way of a demand for their fruits. 



'TEACH PROBLEMS." 



BY SETH J. T. BUSH, OF MORTON, N. Y. 



Mr. President and Members of the Michigan State Horticultural Society: 



T am particularly happy to be able to be with you and participate 

 in this splendid meeting, and I bring to you the most hearty felicita- 

 tions from our two great Horticultural organizations in New York — 

 the old Western New York Horticultural Society and the New York 

 State Fruit Grower's Association. 



It has been our very good fortune to have with us for our edification 

 and instruction on several occasions, some of the "live wires" in the 

 fruit business of your great State, and it is always a great pleasure to 

 compare notes with our fellow fruit-growers from other States and you 

 are ALL, here and now, extended an invitation to and assured of a 

 warm welcome at our meetings this year and every year. 



I wish it distinctly understood at the outset that I make no pre- 

 tensions of being an "Expert" at peach growing or anything else. 



I have been engaged in raising peaches commercially for thirty years 

 and during that time have gathered some information on the subject 

 of more or less value, but the older I grow the more convinced T become 

 of the fact that a man can learn something every day, and one of the 

 best places to pick up valuable information is right in a meeting of 

 earnest practical men such as this. 



