no STATi; POMOLOGICAL S0CIE;TY. 



if you was going into this business? Wouldn't you start out 

 and build up a business of taking in and putting out products? 

 It is the confidence we are after. We haven't any historic past. 

 We have had a couple of years just simply a meeting of a lot 

 of men from all over the State for an hour or two at a time to 

 ■discuss a problem which it needs days and months and years to 

 study out. As I suggested when I began — I would be very 

 much obliged to you if you would fire questions at me, and I 

 don't care how impertinent they are, nor how much to the point 

 they are, if you want to know anything about this company that 

 I have not said, or what we intend to do, or how we are trying 

 to work, or anything of the sort, and I will try and answer your 

 questions and show you whether we have studied it out or 

 whether we are making a bluflf at it. 



Question. Do you sell stock, and what is the price, and how 

 much does a man have to buy to get in? 



Mr. Guptill. I am much obliged to you. I ought to have told 

 that. The price of the stock is $io a share, and so as to have 

 it go around we will limit it perhaps to fifty shares — that would 

 allow a man to have $500 invested in the company ; perhaps he 

 wouldn't want only ten. But if he subscribes for $10 it makes 

 him a voting member of stock, and if he has $20 it makes him 

 a double voting member, and if he has thirty he has three votes, 

 and $100 he has ten votes. Of course such things are deter- 

 mined by law. The shares are $10 apiece. I want to say just, 

 a word further. If there is anybody that wants to invest, the 

 certificates of stock are not yet issued but Mr. A. E. Rogers is 

 the secretary of the company and if you will give him $10 he 

 will give you a receipt for it, which is exchangeable at the time 

 the certificates of stock are issued for a certificate of stock. 

 As soon as you pay your $10 you will be eligible to vote and 

 will be a member of the society at the State Grange. 



W. D. HuRD, Dean of College of Agriculture, University of 



Maine. 



It is perhaps fitting that your State College, the University of 

 Maine, and especially the College of Agriculture, a part of that 

 institution, should be represented at this time. The president 

 and secretary of the Association last night told you of the great 



