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iize that canning is a good way to conserve sugar in the 

 fruit, and I think a certain amount will be liberated. We 

 should give -careful attention to our growing this year. I be- 

 lieve we are going to sell what we grow. Let our aim be to 

 grow the best we can. We have heard a lot said to-day 

 about help in regard to boys and girls and women gathering 

 the fruit. I am not so sure but we can gather it quite as 

 well with the help of the girls and v»^omen as we have been 

 able to with some of the men. 



This has been a hard year and one in which there was 

 very little your Association could do, or your officers could 

 do, but we have had the interests of the growers upon our 

 minds and tried to do, in a quiet way, what we could to en- 

 courage an outlet for the fruit. 



This evening, if you are present, we will read you the 

 communications which we have had with the Food Adminis- 

 tration, We have taken it up with the State House at Bos- 

 ton. Mr. Wheeler has taken it up with Mr. Hoover in Wash- 

 ington. We have quite a lot of correspondence here, and it 

 looks encouraging in regard to svigar. 



I believe we are confronted by a serious condition in re- 

 gard to the pear psylla, and unless we are able to control it 

 we will be losing our pear trees soon. I know in the or- 

 chards where there are only a few trees in the back yards in 

 our section, it is getting beyond them. I do not believe we 

 can control it as well with lime-sulfur as with oil. I think 

 if the oil is used in the fall and again in the spring, that we 

 can check it, but the lime-sulfur doesn't seem to penetrate 

 under the bark and control the pear psylla. 



THE CHAIRMAN: I would like to bring a little mat- 

 ter to your attention. I do not believe the Association should 

 overlook this matter of extending a vote of thanks to the 

 people who co-operated with the Association in getting out 

 this information last summer, when it seemed to be desirable ; 

 and also a vote of thanks for their offer to assist next sea- 

 son in getting out information. As Professor Chenoweth 

 left the hall, he told me that his department at the college 



