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At Hebron Station, our shipping point, we have built a 

 storehouse one story high with about 2800 square feet of 

 floor space. This- building we have found very useful both 

 in shipping season and for the purpose of storing supplies we 

 liave bought. This season, when the car shortage was 

 troubling, our members were able to keep rignt on hauling 

 their apples and putting them into the building. Then when 

 a car or two was set in it was an easy matter to hustle the 

 apples out of the building and into them. 



One of the activities of our Association is its winter 

 meetings. These were formerly held at the homes of some 

 of the members, but now at the storehouse. 



The meetings take the form of a general discussion of 

 any matters of interest in the growing or marketing of fruit. 

 They are held monthly and serve to keep up the interest 

 through the winter. All of the Bears turn out for all day. 

 The wives of our members provide a lunch and a general 

 good time is enjoyed by all. Our Inggest get-together is 

 the annual field meeting. This event is held in the summer 

 time in the orchard of one of our members. It is widely 

 advertised and everyone is invited. We have had the at- 

 tendance of as many as five hundred at one of these meet- 

 ings. We have been very fortunate in obtaining speakers 

 and have had some programs of exceptional interest. 



I have now told you at some length of the main activi- 

 ties of our Association. There are a good many interesting 

 stories connected with its life that I would enjoy telling you 

 if time would allow. It is sometime said that success is 

 made up of failures. In our six seasons of activity, all has 

 not been easy sailing. Mistakes have been made, but they 

 have not been serious mistakes, or at least, we have dis- 

 covered them in time to correct them. 



In closing I will say that I attribute what success we 

 have had to four things. 



First. We have had leadership, not of a few, but of 

 many, as manifested in the true spirit of cooperation. 



Second. We have always employed a ^ood system of 



