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THE PEESIDENT : That is practically what Dr. Whit- 

 tier said, only four cents difference. 



MR. SMITH: AVhere is the profit coming in to the gro- 

 cer? 



THE PEESIDENT : He is going to sell them at $2. 



DR. WHITTIER : I said that anything any one got 

 above $1.25 was velvet, so if a man gets $2, he is getting a 

 profit of 75 cents. I admit that isn't enough for the farmer. 



PROF. STIMPSON: I think that this is a pretty impor- 

 tant subject. The Board of Education has just finished the 

 I/reparation of an exhibit for the Panama-Pacific Expositioii, 

 consisting of 400 colored lantern slides. • Last night 1 

 showed one of those slides in Boston before an audience. It 

 was a piceture of a boy 17 years old who a year ago this last 

 summer set out 345 apple trees. The picture showed one of 

 his apple trees against a sheet, a beautiful tree, low-headed, 

 well-balanced, and it had made an excellent growth. Aftet 

 the lecture was over a woman in the audience came up and 

 wanted to know if I thought the Board of Education had 

 any right to be establishing schools for the encouragement 

 of boys to produce apple trees with the expectation of selling 

 fruit. (Laughter). Well, I told her that we had great 

 hopes of such organizations as this being able to work out 

 the problem of selling. 



THE PRESIDENT: Now we are to have some moving 

 pictures of Orcharding in Massachusetts. 



(Moving pictures shown to the audience). 



(Adjourned to Thursday, at 10.30 a. m.) 



