ANNUAL REPORT. 141 



Condensed Report of Field Meetings, Institutes, 

 etc., held in 1903. 



Summer Field Meetings. 



"Fellozu Members — 



"Your Executive Committee met recently and decided in favor 

 of continuing these interesting and helpful gatherings. No 

 feature of our work in the past has been more successful 

 or benefited the Society and the members more than these out- 

 ings. We should liold five or six of these field days during the 

 next four months in the principal fruit sections of the State. 

 The question is, will our members support the movement? Will 

 you help us to arrange for a field meeting on some fruit farm or 

 with the Grange in your vicinity? It is desirable, of course, 

 to meet where some fruit crop is made a leading specialty and 

 when it may be seen at its best; or if the Grange extends the 

 invitation, to gather for a picnic lunch and then visit some 

 nearby farm of special interest. The Society wall share in the 

 expense and the burden need not be heavy. 



"Members, let us be alive to this opportunity and each one do 

 his part toward encouraging these mutually pleasant and 

 profitable meetings." 



The above appeal was sent out to the members and friends of 

 the Society early in the summer of 1903. 



Owing to the fact that the season was an unfavorable one for 

 growing crops, especially orchard and berry crops, fruit growers 

 had little of interest to show and responses to the above were 

 slow to come in. But later on conditions improved somewhat 

 and prospects brightened and invitations for five field meetings 

 were received, all of which were gladly accepted by the Society. 



Very successful gatherings were held at Branford, Higganum, 

 South Glastonbtiry, Andover and Wethersfield, each one adding 



