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portant question of the advantages and possibilities for profitable 

 Fruit Groimng in Connecticut be made the leading topic wherever 

 possible. Our Society is about to start a general movement in the 

 interests of orcharding in Connecticut — following the splendid results 

 of the recent New England Fruit Show^ — and the institutes are ex- 

 pected to be a strong factor in this great work. 



We know you are deeply interested in the success of the fruit 

 growing industry of our state, and we ask you to use your influence 

 in having an institute in your town this coming winter. Urge your 

 local grange to take the matter up, talk to your neighbors about it 

 and see if a rousing good meeting cannot be carried out. Practically 

 all the expense will be met by state funds, and we promise you the 

 best of speakers and an attractive program. 



Act at Once ! It is desired that all applications for institutes be 

 sent in before December ISth. Write to the Secretary for full infor- 

 mation and secure a date for an institute. 



You cannot help yourself or your town in any better way than 

 by encouraging the institute. Hoping to hear from you. 

 Very truly yours. 

 The Connecticut Pomological Society. 



Orchard Demonstration Institutes. 



In connection with this report of institute work for 

 1910, it should be added that the demonstration orchard 

 work established by the Pomological Society in coopera- 

 tion with the Connecticut Agricultural College, led to hold- 

 ing several "demonstration institutes" at the orchards of S. 

 A. Smith & Sons in Cheshire and Jos. Stoddard in Pom- 

 fret. These meetings occurred March 29 and April 7 at 

 Cheshire and April 1 and April 12 at Pomfret. A full re- 

 port of this work was given by Prof. C. D. Jarvis, who was 

 in charge of it, at the recent annual meeting, and suffice it 

 to say that this form of outdoor institute is a most valuable 

 one and is likely to be employed to a greater extent in the 

 future. Their educational value cannot be over estimated. 

 While the actual work of pruning and spraying is being 

 done right before the eyes of the audience, the professor 



