I06 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Your turn will come in the winter, when you can go to the pomo- 

 logical meeting, poultry show or the city and have just as 

 good a vacation and just as much money to spend, and if you 

 will only take pains to look into the lives of those people you 

 will come back home, glad of your lot, and thank God that your 

 lines have fallen in such pleasant places. 



SUMMER MEETING. 



The Summer Meeting was held August 21, 1906, with the 

 University of Maine, Orono. The forenoon was devoted to 

 viewing the campus and looking over garden and fields of the 

 farm. After a basket lunch the party assembled in the chapel, 

 and the meeting was called to order and opened by President 

 Gilbert : 



You are aware that there is more than one way of obtaining 

 knowledge, gaining information. We read, we study, we draw 

 from books, and in addition we can gain knowledge from obser- 

 vation ; and the FieW Day — Summer Meeting — of the State 

 Pomological Society is designed especially to draw information 

 from observation, object lessons, that we may put ourselves 

 in connection with on these occasions. 



We have been invited from time to time, and quite frequently, 

 to visit this institution in our Summer Meeting, and this year 

 we decided to do so, and make our observations on the College 

 campus and the Experiment Station grounds here placed open 

 to our view. That is what called us here today, and it is not 

 the purpose on this occasion to spend any considerable time or 

 to invite your close attention to remarks, speeches or anything 

 of that nature, but to take something of the time with remarks 

 on what we have seen, what we have found, or what the insti- 

 tution here has presented to our observation for the purposes of 

 gaining information. So you will see that all the way through 

 the work is informal. 



It is proper, however, that we may have some words of greet- 

 ing or welcome from Dr. Fellows, President of the University 

 of Maine. 



Dr. Geo. E. Fellows : I wish to tell you how pleased I am, 

 and for the remainder of the Facultv and all connected with the 



