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and he wants to make you feel good. He made one good point, however, 

 when he said that down here in southern Indiana, in the rolling land you 

 haA'e there, you have the finest peach land in America. All it wants is 

 handling with the peach idea. A man who will take a love of the business 

 with him and go there and study the conditions, get the right varieties of 

 trees and take up the idea of spraying, and all the ideas that are free and 

 open to everybody, will find a fortune there, besides a heap of fun. Don't 

 wait to have people from Ohio come here and take up the land and carry 

 out these ideas. Do it yourself; keep the money at home! That land in 

 Southern Indiana will produce fruit just at the right season to be a sort 

 of middle ground between the extreme South, where the early peaches 

 come from, and the central North or farther North, where the main sup- 

 ply of September peaches come from. This southern Indiana hilly country 

 is the ideal spot for growing the poaches for this season that fits in be- 

 tween the North and the South. I don't know of any other locality in 

 America I would rather go into, if I were going to put in another peach 

 ci chard, than the rolling counties of southern Indiana. There is a for- 

 tune in it. 



The convention was then adjourned to meet at 1:30 p. m. 



FOURTH SESSION. 



Thursday Afternoon, December 4, 1902. 



The fourth session was called to order at 1:30 p. m. by President 

 Stevens. 



Secretary Flick: It has been stated by Mr. Burton that a number of 

 growers who have fruit on exhibition here think it would be a good thing 

 to put it on exhibition again so that the coming Legislature could see it. 

 It is desired that all the exhibitors who so desire give consent before the 

 fruit is removed. Mr. Burton would like to know at once whether they 

 will give the fruit for this purpose or not. Mr. Keach, who has control of 

 considerable cold stoi-age room, says he will keep the fruit for us free 

 of charge if we pack it for that purpose, and he will deliver it to any one 

 the Society will send after it at any time. 



Mr. Burton: I made the suggestion so that we might take it up at this 

 session. I wish also to speak of the St. Louis Exposition fruit exhibit. 

 I would like to have every one listen to what I am going to say. If we 

 make a display of fruit at the St. Louis Exposition, in 1904, there must be 

 some reason for it. Why should we make a display of fruit? For the 

 reason that we make a display for the honor of it. We feel proud when 



