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are making their own. This is likel}' to become still more important 

 in the future as there is greater demand for shipping purposes. 



THE ESTHETIC WORK OF THE SOCIETY. 



Thus far at all the exhibitions of the Society it has been my [)i iv- 

 ilege to attend, the fruits and flowers have been well displayed. 

 Several exhibitions of the Society have been especially fine in this 

 respect. The influence of a beautiful array of fruits and flowers is 

 far-reaching, especiallv when visited by thousands from different parts 

 of the State. 1 do not think we spend quite enough now, however, 

 in this direction. I have visited exhibitions of fruit that were massed 

 together in such a rough-atjd-tumble way that no good impression 

 whatever was left. There are many smaller exhibitions of fruit in 

 the Stat€ and ours can but make its impress upon them, particularly 

 when it is notablv attractive. The esthetic idea does not end here, 

 for upon hundreds of tables in our State, could we look in upou them, 

 we should see fruits more attractively arranged and more invitingly 

 served. Then, again, the flowers are carefully studied and every new- 

 design of floral beauty is remembered by hundreds of flower-loving 

 people, and who does not love and enjo}- flowers when in their inno- 

 cent beauty the}' tastefully adorn our homes? Let us continue this 

 good work by making our exhibitions more esthetic in their arrange- 

 ment, while in our winter meetings we may be able to do in the same 

 direction even more than we have done in the past. 



EDUCATIONAL WORK OF OUR AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS. 



This leads me to suggest several wavs in which we mav increase 

 our usefulness in the State, in fact I am not quite sure but it is our 

 duty to do very much more than we are doing. I have endeavored 

 to show that our Society in its work is a public educator in the State 

 and country. It is well for us to recognize our attitude towards the 

 public in this respect, and to the extent we may have influence call 

 to our aid the other organizations and institutions in the State. It 

 is encouraging to note that there is a demand among our more intel- 

 ligent people that our agricultural organizations shall become more 

 useful by more fully occupying their respective fields of labor. The 

 Board of Agriculture being at the head of all these bodies should 

 always be in advance of them. The Board is doing a good work but 

 we should like to see it do better. Perhaps it may be visionary but 



