Twenty-Second Annual Convention 



OF THE 



Hissachusetts Fruit Growers' Association, Inc. 



Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass. 

 January 20, 21 and 22, 1916. 



First Day, Thursday, January 20, 1916 



AFTERNOON SESSION 

 President Sears in the Chair . 



THE CHAIRMAN : Noav, ladies and gentlemen, I think 

 we will call the meeting to order, if you will be seated. We 

 feel that we have a particularly strong programme this year 

 to present to you and are glad to see so many out at the 

 opening session. We want to make a specialty of two or three 

 things this year, some of which we have tried to specialize on 

 before. One thing Ave want particularly is to have time left 

 for discussion and to emphasize the questions that you people 

 may have to ask the different speakers and to give some time 

 specifically for the question box or for calling for a list of 

 questions which you will find in the programme here. We 

 hope at the end of the different sessions to be ready for any- 

 body to call for questions on this list and to ask someone 

 that we think is qualified for the work to answer the ques- 

 tions. 



Another thing we intend to do, and you will find it on 

 the programme in several places, is to give our trades ex- 

 hibits people a good fair show. We think we have got an 

 excellent exhibit here, and want to give time enough for you 

 people to go down and see the exhibit and talk to the men 



