34 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meanwhile we must be active and spare no expense in disputing 

 its advances till other aid shall come to the assistance of the 

 situation. 



Secretary D. H. Kxowlton : There are one or two matters 

 to which I would like to call your attention at this time because 

 there may not be so favorable an opportunity to do it later, and I 

 do it with the hope that those of you who are present may bear 

 the fact in mind and extend the notice so far as it may seem of 

 interest and importance to you. 



The first which I have on my memorandum here, without any 

 reference to importance, is a box of apples below on exhibition 

 which we procured from New York for the purpose of showing, 

 first the quality, and second the style of packing, of fruit of 

 which we hear so much at the present time. We know also that 

 the noise they are making about it is particularly significant to 

 us. I want to read you a few lines from the gentleman to whom 

 we are indebted for that box of apples, Mr. Collingwood of the 

 Rural New Yorker. These apples are from the Hood River 

 Valley, Oregon. They are medium grade fruit and cost $3.25. 

 Aside from the style of packing, what they sell for is a matter of 

 importance to us. I will guarantee that those apples are not so 

 good in quality as lots of apples on the tables below that were 

 grown right here in the town of Harrison, but I want you all to 

 examine them and see what style in packing means. This letter 

 says, "I thought it might be better to get them than extra fancy 

 which are selling for $3.75." These that we have, represent, as 

 he expresses it ''the rank and file of the crop" of the Hood River 

 Valley. 



I want to call your attention also to this collection of insects 

 over here on the table, made by Miss Bernice Watson, of the 

 Gardiner High Shool, who is here to offer any words of interest 

 which she may regarding these insects. I was delighted this 

 morning to see so many of the school children present, and I 

 hope if there are any in town who have not had the opportunity 

 of seeing them that thev mav come out. 



I wish to call your attention also to a little package, I don't 

 know what to call it, which a gentleman brought in to me from 

 the town of New Vineyard — Dr. E. P. Turner. He has a large 

 orchard which has been recently set in the town of New Vine- 

 yard on the home farm which he owns there. Well, last winter 



