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I want to hear from Adams county. I will call on Mr. Elden, 

 President of the Adams County Fruit Growers Association. 



MR. ELDEN. — Mr. Chairman, and Fellow-members of the Horti- 

 cultural Society. This is very unexpected to me, as I expected Mr. 

 Tyson to speak for our societ3^ We organized about three years 

 ago, and have about one hundred members. We are not what is 

 called co-operative; we have no time to sell or buy anything co- 

 operatively, but we are rather united for the purpose of fighting 

 these pests. If we know anything, or are persuaded that we know 

 anything, we are to first tell that to everybody that we reach, and 

 that is a criticism of one or two organizations whose proceedings 

 they Kecmi to hold back. We are very anxious to pass it along, and 

 that I think is the life of the county organization. If we have 

 something in our practice that is to us apparently of more value 

 than that which is on our program, we let our program go, and take 

 up this other matter. Our program is a secondary matter, and we 

 let it go. 



We come from the land of the York Imperial apple, and it will be 

 heard from. Our products, as yet, are not very extensive but we 

 are expectisig great things from new plantings. We expect also 

 to plant some Stayman Wine-Sap, Grimes' Golden and Jonathan. 



I am glad to meet with you, and I want to say if there are any 

 gentlemen who contemplate organizing, you can't get together too 

 early. Get together in a house and organize. Some of you gentle- 

 men, perhaps, could buy a house, and you would have a place to 

 meet. Meet once in a month, and meet on a Saturday night, and we 

 invite all of 3'ou to come and meet with us. We had oiu' second 

 annual convention in December. 



THE PRESIDENT.— Mr. Lee, can you tell us anything about 

 that Bedford County Society. 



MR. LEE. — Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: We have a 



small society in Bedford county of about thirty-two members or- 

 ganized some two or three years ago. I think they met once, and 

 elected their ofiicers, and that was the last meeting they had. At 

 that last meeting, a State Board member came and myself and one 

 or two others, and we tried to re-organize the association, and after 

 I moved back from Harrisburg, I got them together, and got the 

 society re-organized, and got it moving along for two or three meet- 

 ings, and the officers did not turn up and I thought the association 

 was going to die again, and last Saturday, the Corresponding Secre- 

 tary, not being satisfied with the association going back so soon, 

 called on me and said I should call a business meeting, that he had 

 some resolutions to adopt to be sent to the Department at Washing- 

 ton, and the program was announced, and I suppose we will go on 

 as we have heretofore. V/e generally meet the last Saturday of 

 every month. We had several good meetings, which were of an in- 

 structive character, and were very well attended, and it certainly 

 looked bright, and I will da all I can to try to get the interest 

 stirred up, because there is a whole lot of fruit raised in Bedford 

 county; more than people have any idea of. It was estimated that 

 two hundred carloads were shipped out of Bedford county last year, 

 and we did not have a very large crop. I know they have three 



