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Slime of the whole matter and a total of crop raised, cost of same, and 

 amount sold for. Such a series of statistics would be of untold value 

 to the fruit-grower, and would be the means of locating many, many- 

 buyers in our State. 



In fact, friends and members, what we want is more money to ac- 

 complish our ends. The work is spreading and growing until it takes 

 more work, more time, more reports and more effort now than it did a 

 few years back, and hence we must have larger clothes to grow in. 



OUR REPORT. 



A word for our report, dear friends, and I will close this appeal to 

 your better judgment. It is being called for more and more as the 

 years go by, and I feel glad with you that we have thus far been able 

 to increase our labor and our reports and our intiuence during this 

 last twelve years that I have tried to serve you, our State and the 

 Society. I confess to you today that there has been no more pleasur- 

 able portion of my life's work than that I have done with you in this 

 State Horticultural Society work, and I feel happy that we have been 

 such a unit in all of it. 



As long as we thus continue working together, advising one an- 

 other, helping each other, pulling as one man for the interests of the 

 fruit-grower, for the development of the State, for the collection and 

 distribution of experience, for the best welfare of the State Society,,, 

 we may be sure tljat we will have a successful membership and suc- 

 cessful fruit-growers. To this end will we labor. 



L. A. Goodman, Sec'y. 



