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other expenses, and this cheap fruit thrown upon the market injures 

 the sale of the better grades. I think we should take more pains to 

 urge upon the fruit growers the necessit}' of packing his No. 1 apples 

 only, and have them strictly No. 1 and make some other disposition 

 of his poorer fruit. With the facilities we have in this State for 

 fruit growing we can surely compete with any other section, and we 

 should with our ability to raise high colored, high flavored, firm 

 apples, have a reputation second to none in the world. I believe 

 this ruinous policy of grasping for the whole, in our methods of 

 packing is very short- sighted, and will work great injury to the 

 business in future years. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 



The President's Annual Address was submitted for examination 

 to a committee consisting of Z. A. Gilbert, W. M. Munson and H. 

 W. Brown, who later in the meeting submitted the following: 



The committee to whom was submitted the President's annual 

 address for examination and report, having attended to that duty, 

 submit the following report : 



In a general way we commend the address to the attention of the 

 fruit growers of the State as well worthv of their confidence. 



The suggestion that less attention be given to the further planting 

 out of trees, and instead that we encourage the expenditure of more 

 effort in the care and culture of the trees we now have in hand. We 

 want fruit, and there are but few orchards to be found in the Slate 

 which are receiving so much of fertilization and of careful and con- 

 stant attention as its profitable production will pay for. We join 

 with the President in the conclusion that the profits of business 

 call for more of attention to the trees we have rather than more trees 

 planted out. 



In regard to piotecting our Maine fruits from the damaging effects 

 of association in the market with the inferior fruits with which they 

 go to market. We believe the influence of this Society should be 

 exerted to keep the inferior fruit commonly designated as No. 2, out 

 of the market in their present form. We fully believe if the No. 2 

 fruit of New England of the last crop could have been out of the 

 market that the good fruit remaining would have realized more 

 money than both qualities have brought as they have been marketed. 

 This inferior fruit can be put into forms of usefulness and of value, 



