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ods are practiced and a large degree of success has been 

 attained. 



The plan of the field meetings of this society has been 

 copied by the other agricultural organizations of the state 

 and by other states as well, and have now become a fixture 

 wherever farmers and fruit growers are organized. 



Following the Society's annual meeting in February, 

 and after the farmers' institutes of the spring are over, the 

 attention of the ofificers naturally turns to planning for the 

 campaign of summer field meetings. The Executive Com- 

 mittee, at a meeting held in May, 1910, voted to hold three 

 or four field days during the summer, beginning with the 

 strawberry season in June. 



However, the fruit growers' busy season coming on 

 with a rush, and the partial failure of the strawberry crop, 

 because of drouth and other causes, it was found to be im- 

 practical to hold a meeting in June. It was not until July 

 25, at a meeting of the officers at Savin Rock, that plans 

 really materialized for the summer gatherings. This exe- 

 cutive meeting was attended by fourteen of the ofificers and 

 committees, and an enthusiastic interest- in the work of the 

 Society was shown. A dinner at the shore resort was en- 

 joyed and plans discussed for pushing the summer's cam- 

 paign with unusual vigor. Invitations to hold field meet- 

 ings were received from Barnes Bros, at Wallingford and 

 Durham, Mr. Charles E. Lyman of Middlefield, and Hale 

 & Coleman of Seymour. 



It was decided to accept the Lyman and the Hale & 

 Coleman ofifers. Arrangements were perfected to make the 

 Lyman meeting a great "peach field day," inasmuch as the 

 peach crop promised to be a most bountiful one, and the 

 work of gathering peach crop estimates would be greatly 

 helped by this means, and also the cooperation of the rail- 

 roads and fruit buyers could be secured — a matter of con- 

 siderable importance to the peach growers of the state. 

 Aueust 3rd was selected as the date for the 



