$1770.60 

 Mr. Brown explained various items of the treasurer's 

 report, which was accepted. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT 



Feb. 26, 1918 

 The secretary will be as concise as possible as there are 

 many valuable papers to follow. The 1917 Report came 

 very near being among the missing till the middle of the 

 summer. Following the usual custom the speakers correct- 

 ed the copy of their section and returned it to the Secretary 

 whence it went to the printer, who kept things moving there. 

 Envelopes, already stamped and addressed to those who 

 were paid up for 1917 were sent to the bindery as usual and 

 just as soon as the book was off the press it went to the 

 members. Some copies were sent by express to the Secre- 

 tary and the balance came by freight and went astray, fi- 

 nally showing up in Marlboro without any bill of lading. 

 However we obtained delivery and some two months later 

 a freight bill showed up and was paid. 



We have always issued our reports very promptly and 

 though delayed till after the annual meeting last year we 

 believe we were still ahead of the other fruit associations. 

 We certainly were lucky that all the reports did not go by 

 freight. 



The new Association letterhead with fruit design in two 

 colors was sent out with the spray notice on it but apparent- 

 ly every one got so busy spraying that they did not have 



