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perhaps not as large, but very similar, might be worked very 

 satisfactorily. 



Now, the next speaker needs practically no introduction 

 to this Association. We have heard him before and we al- 

 ways hear him with pleasure, always feel, after he has 

 talked to us, that we have been listening to a man who knows 

 what he was talking about and has been through the mill 

 £.nd whose opionion we could rely upon. I have great pleas- 

 ure in introducing Mr. Fred A. Smith, Director of the Essex 

 County Independent Agricultural School, Hathorne. Mass., 

 who will talk to us on "Raspberry Culture." (Applause). 



