Twenty Third Annual Convention 



OF THE 



Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association, Inc. 



Municipal Building, Springfield, Mass. 

 February 11 and 12, 1917. 

 Morning Session 



Vice President Munson in the Chair. 



THE CHAIRMAN : We are a little unfortunate this 

 morning in that our President has not been able to come 

 here, and it falls upon my shoulders to open the meeting. 



We are veyy fortimate in havin-^ a man like Professor 

 Sears, who has takeji considerable time out of the pleasures 

 he has derived from many of his trips and has been willing 

 to give us the benefit of this last one that he has taken and 

 gotten the new ideas and he will give us this morning some 

 of the results that he has been able to find there and some of 

 the things that they are doing in the different fruit growing 

 sections through which he has traveled, and it gives me 

 very much pleasure to introduce at this time Professor 

 Sears. 



FRUIT OBSERVATIONS IN THE WEST 



F. C. Sears, Professor of Pomology, Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, Amherst 



Mr. Chairman and Friends : I am certainly very glad indeed 

 to have this chance of talking to you people again. 



