PROCEEDINGS 



The attendance at the meeting was the smallest of any meeting of Fruit 

 Manufacturers since the organization of the society, owing principally to 

 sickness and an unfortunate misunderstanding in regard to date of 

 convention . 



President G. F. Allmendinger called the first session to order at 

 2:30 p. M. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read, accepted, and approved. 



The president then read his address, which was so full of interest and 

 practical thought that we give it entire. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



We have gathered for the fifth annual meeting of our organization, which has grown 

 stronger and more useful with each yearly meeting; and this fact, together with the 

 fact that it has lived to enter into its fifth year of work, is good evidence that it is 

 fulfilling what was expected of it by the Manufacturers of Fruit Goods of the state. 

 We meet to greet each other, to pass notes on what our competitors in the world out- 

 side are doing, and to exchange information regarding our different modes of conduct- 

 ing business, and we find a couple of days in each year well spent in so doing. Our 

 meetings will be successful only as each adds his part to the common fund of informa- 

 tion, and each should endeavor to add something to this common fund. Thus only 

 can we gain the largest possible profit. 



By organized effort we have secured some advantages, and by continuance of effort 

 we shall gain still larger benefits in the future. Reference is, of course, here made to 

 matters of legislation, secured and attempted. A report of your committee on legis- 

 lation, and a resume of the situation for the benefit of those not familiar with it, 

 will here be in order. 



This association has declared itself to be in favor of a pure-food law, with provision 

 for its enforcement by a commission. It believes that manufacturers who make pure 

 jellies, pure vinegar, and honest canned goods, and the like, should not have their 

 markets cut off by other manufacturers who sell spurious and cheaper goods under the 

 name of pure fruit products. It believes, too, that the producer of fruit is interested 

 equally with us, and invites the cordial cooperation of all horticulturists in the state. 

 It believes that every person in the state, from the humblest worker to its wealthiest 

 citizen, has a right to pure food, and that the sale of harmful food compounds should 

 be prohibited. It believes that non-injurious preparations should be sold for what they 

 are, that no purchaser be deceived in reference to what he buys. Harmful compounds, 

 if generally used, must prove ruinous to the citizens of our state; and whether injuri- 

 ous or non-injurious, both kinds are made, and made only for the enrichment of dishonest 

 manufacturers. Certainly no adulteration has ever been heard of which increased the 

 cost of production. A trifling deduction from the cost of a pound or a gallon means a 

 fortune for some one. In the 6tate of Ohio alone, to deduct one cent per pound from 

 the cost of cheese, and two cents per pound from the cost of butter, because of the 

 competition of oleomargarine, and like products, meant a loss annually of one and a 

 half million dollars to the people of Ohio alone. 



This statement alone tells the story in its relation to honest industry. The unprinci- 



