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infected and who has to be officially notified by a fruit inspector to clean 

 it out is maintaining a public nuisance, and he becomes an obje^-t of 

 pity and a fit subject to attend every horticultural meeting in his State; 

 but unfortunately, he is never there. Every progressive and successful 

 fruit grower should be a constant and earnest reader ^of our horticul- 

 tural papers. And our experimental station reports and our State horti- 

 cultural board reports are all worthy of careful study. 



Fellow fruit growers, are you searching for a higher knowledge of 

 horticultural work? If so, you must study. Success in college comes 

 only to those who labor for it. So it is with the fruit grower. Success 

 bringing with it pleasure, comes most to him who labors in mind as well 

 as in the field. 



Let me ask you, are you a member of your State horticultural society? 

 If not, it is your duty to enroll your name at once. It needs your 

 financial as well as moral support; and you need its teachings, in- 

 fluence and power. An amusing incident comes to my mind which 

 clearly illustrates the indifference of many of our fruit growers toward 

 the attendance at horticultural meetings. A few years ago a farmers' 

 institute along horticultural lines was held in our valley in the town 

 of Hood River. 



One day while en route to attend one of these meetings, I met a neigh- 

 bor fruit grower and asked him to go with me. He replied: "Mason, 

 those fellows (meaning our experiment station and agricultural college 

 professors) don't know anything about growing fruit. You had better 

 stay at home and work, and save your time and money." And yet this 

 same fruit grower is using the lime and sulphur spray for scale and 

 fungus and the arsenate of soda spray for the codling moth. Why? 

 Because the experiment stations have established their worth and his 

 neighbors by their acts have conveyed the message to him. And I 

 will venture the assertion that this same fruit grower will use the 

 arsenate of lead spray next season, because some of us have demon- 

 strated its worth as given to us from the many experiment station 

 tests. Do you think this fruit grower is doing his duty? Not in the 

 least. He is floating upon the experience and labors of his fellow fruit 

 growers. He has not given nor is he giving one iota to his fellow fruit 

 growers for that which he has received and is receiving. Again, brother 

 fruit growers, are you a member of the organization, the Northwest 

 Fruit Growers' Association? It, too, needs your moral and financial 

 support, and you are needing its social, educational and finan:ial 

 benefit. 



Every fruit grower who attends its meetings is repaid many timei 

 the cost of the trip. A year ago this association met in Boise City, 

 Idaho, and our expenses were quite heavy, owing to our dist-^nce to 

 travel; but every fruit grower who attended that meeting, will bear 

 me out in affirming that the papers read by Professor L. F. Henderson 

 on fire blight, and Prof. E. D. Ball on codling moth, were worth the 

 cost of the entire trip; and it would be unfair not to say many other 



