TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING. g 



Institute is as popular and helpful as ever. This Society 

 held Institutes the past season as follows : At Xew Hartford, 

 February 10; Milford, February 15; Lyme. February 24; 

 Hebron, February 25 ; Wolcott. February 28 ; Chaplin, March 

 4; Cheshire. ]\Iarch 11; Monroe. March 15; W'estfield, }^larch 

 18; Durham. March 22. Besides these we have supplied 

 speakers on fruit subjects for a large number of Grange 

 meetings and, for Institutes held b\- the other state organiza- 

 tions. 



A lively campaign of Institute work is being mapped out 

 for the remainder of the season. With the present wide- 

 spread interest in all agricultural lines, the advantages of the 

 Institute to every rural community should be realized and 

 accepted, and the state should be more li])eral in its sui)pi''rt. 



Publicity Work. 



This important work, inaugurated by the Society a _\ear 

 ago, has met with success and grown in volume and import- 

 ance. Your committee having charge of this matter will 

 make a full report, and I will only add that I believe no line 

 of work we have yet undertaken will prove of such far-reach- 

 ing benefit to the agriculture and horticulture of our state. 

 Since the bulletins have been issued, our committee has been 

 almost swamped with requests for further information and 

 advice, and for farms available for growing fruit. It would 

 seem that in the near future some sort of a central bureau 

 must be established to properly handle these requests for 

 help, that are pouring in from within and without the state. 

 The whole thing onl\- goes to show that the eyes of the pub- 

 lic are turning toward X^ew England as a section possessing 

 exceptional advantages for country homes, business farming 

 and profitable fruit growing. 



The work of gathering fruit crop reports for the lienefit 

 of the grow'ers. railroads and fruit buyers — the issuing of 

 the Society's Annual Report and other helj^ful literature to 

 our members and others — and the demonstration orcliard 



