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society provide itself with an attractive diploma of proper size 

 and quality and that one of the same be presented to the winner 

 of the sweepstake prize yearly. 



G. M. TWITCHELL, 

 MRS. V. P. DeCOSTER, 

 MRS. L. A. CHANDLER, 



Comiiiiftee. 



Voted, That said report be accepted. 



Voted, That the selection of a design and the proper wording 

 of the award be submitted to the same committee for their 

 action. 



The committee on president's address, by its chairman offered 

 their report as follows : 



Your committee to whom was referred the address of Pres, 

 Gilbert and report of Sec. Knowlton, would submit the follow- 

 ing: 



That this society expresses itself in decided terms of con- 

 demnation over the selection of the log cabin as the Maine 

 building at St. Louis as unfortunate and inappropriate for the 

 reason that no matter how artistic, it will speak only of the forest 

 and in no sense can it represent the social or industrial life of 

 the State of Maine or the culture and enterprise of its inhabi- 

 tants. Maine is today a State of farms, villages, towns, cities 

 and manufacturing and not a forest. 



Representing the fruit growers of the State, and an industry 

 exceeding two million dollars annually, we believe a serious 

 injury has been done through the failure of the St. Louis Com- 

 mission to make reply and grant the application of this society 

 for an adequate appropriation by which a fair representation of 

 Maine fruit might have been made at St. Louis. As the time 

 has now passed it is well for the people of the State to know that 

 the failure in no way attaches to the officers of this society or 

 our fruit growers. 



We believe that the press of the State can aid materially our 

 fruit industry by frequently calling attention to the fact that our 

 domestic consumption of fruit is of far greater importance than 

 the foreign trade, as out of forty million barrels grown only 

 about three million are exported annually. The superior quality 

 of this fruit and its possible increase in the future are subjects of 

 vital interest and may well form the basis for frequent editorials. 



