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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTH AN- 

 NUAL CONVENTION OF THE FRUIT GROWERS' AS- 

 SOCIATION OF ADAMS COUNTY, HELD DECEMBER 

 13, 14 AND 15, 1911, 



OFFICERS 



President Robert M. Eldon, Aspers 



1st Vice President, C. J. Tyson, Floradale 



2nd Vice President, C. A. Griest, Guernsey 



3rd Vice President C. B. Raffensperger, Arendtsville 



4th Vice President, E. P. Garrettson, Biglerville 



5tli Vice President, J. G. Stover, M. D Bendersville 



Recording-Secretary Josiah W. Prickett, Biglerville 



Corresponding Secrtary, Edwin C. Tyson, Floradale 



Treasui^er, Wm. S. Adams, Aspers 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



Robert M. Eldon, Aspers 



C. J. Tyson, Floradale 



C. A. Griest, Guernsey 



C. E. Raffensperger, Arendtsville 



E. P. Garrettson, Biglerville 



J. G. Stover, M. D., Bendersville 



Josiah W. Prickett, Biglerville 



Edwin C. Tyson, Floradale 



Wm. S. Adams, Aspers 



PKESIDENT'S ADDRESS 



By ROBT. M. ELDON, Aspers 



We are glad to welcome members of tlie Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation, visitors, lecturers and patrons to the seventh convention. 

 We are in practically new quarters. By the offer of increased 

 rentals, the fruit growers organization so encouraged the owners of 

 the old hall that they were moved to add much thereto, which I am 

 sure you will appreciate during the dajs of this week. The growth 

 of the organization from less than forty at the first meeting in 1903 

 to more than two hundred sixty in 1911 is most gratifying. Some- 

 times there is a failure to renew for a year, but mostly the man or 

 woman once a member, comes promptly forward Avith a renewal. 

 Not all of our membership own orchards or fruit trees, but join 



