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this line all the time. I had a letter a few days ago from a 

 Portland party saying that men were coming here from New 

 York and bringing experts with them to look up land to pur- 

 chase for making investments in orcharding in Maine. 



Our rules require that no insect shall be in any of the fruit 

 which is exhibited : no wormy fruit can take a premium. This 

 is to educate the people that we want to raise perfect apples. 

 And in the matter of our speakers, we have aimed to send for 

 experts as far as the money of the Society would allow, experts 

 for speakers, who will show us where we could make our gains. 

 And here is where I would agree with ex-President True, that 

 a little more money is what we need, that we may send speakers 

 for this Society all over the State. There are those who are all 

 the time seeking for assistance, and we would be able in this 

 way to send a speaker where he was needed. 



Mr. Alonzo Butler of Union: I would suggest that we 

 appoint a committee on nomenclature and entertainment, and 

 make it the duty of this committee — some one of the members — 

 tc be on duty at all times to name fruits presented for name, 

 or if this is not possible to send them away where they can be 

 named, to New York or Washington ; and also to act as a re- 

 cruiting committee, to invite people to come into the meetings, 

 to bring in their fruit and become members of the Society, and 

 have a kind word for them and appreciate their presence. I 

 would also suggest that there be no wall tables, but that the 

 tables be arranged in a rectangular form, with a space inside for 

 this committee, so that the strangers coming in may know where 

 the location of this committee is, and that there may be no 

 trouble in finding them at any time. 



It seems to me that if five or seven were on this committee 

 of nomenclature and entertainment that something could be 

 done to increase the interest. 



Secretary Knowlton : I am very glad indeed to hear our 

 President call attention to the young men, and to the young 

 ladies too. I have tried in what I have had to do with the 

 Society, in making up the program, to get in just as many 

 young men and young women on the program as possible, and 

 it was with special pleasure that I invited the lady who repre- 

 sents this exhibition of insects here, a young woman just out 

 of the high school, who is delighted to study these things, and 



