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MEETINGS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 Only two meetings of the committee were held during the year, 

 both in Augusta. The President and Secretary were instructed 

 to appear before the Agricultural Committee in fruit matters 

 calling for legislation. The purchase of an experiment farm for 

 fruit purposes for the Experiment Station was referred to the 

 next legislature. It did not seem necessary for them to attend 

 the hearing on the insect legislation, and it seemed inexpedient 

 to ask for an increase in the stipend at this time. 



FIELD MEETINGS. 



Two field meetings were held, one in Monmouth and one in 

 Wilton. At these meetings the general subject of spraying was 

 presented. No extended report of these meetings appear, but 

 in this connection attention is called to the letter of Mr. M. B. 

 Waite of the Agricultural Department at Washington which 

 appears in another part of the transactions. The meeting at 

 Monmouth was held in Grange Hall and a model grange dinner 

 was served by Monmouth Grange. It was largely attended. 

 At Wilton the attendance was smaller, but good results have 

 followed both meetings. 



NEW ENGLAND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES COME TOGETHER. 



The year the Canadian Fruit Marks Act became a law the 

 Secretary called the attention of the society to the desirability 

 of such a law for Maine fruit growers, and in one form or 

 another the subject matter has been before the society since. 

 At the Canton meeting in 1905, Dr. G. M. Twitchell was made 

 a special committee to take up the matter of national legislation 

 along the line of this act. The committee was continued in 

 1Q06 at Harrison and through Dr. Twitchell's influence a meet- 

 ing of delegates from the New England Horticultural Societies 

 was arranged for under the auspices of the Massachusetts Fruit 

 Growers Association in Worcester. All the societies were rep- 

 resented and at the instance of President Gilbert I had the pleas- 

 ure of attending the meeting. There was such a delightfully 

 sympathetic feeling among the delegates, your Secretary felt 

 that nothing but good could come from more similar meetings 

 in the future. We are in close touch with one another geograph- 



