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stance suggested two lessons, that good fruit sold this year not only 

 brings a good price but recommends the fruit of the locality for 

 years after, the other lesson is the importance of producing and 

 offering for sale only the best fruit. 



The markets in which our fruit has found a sale are also deserving 

 of some notice as well as the improved facilities that are being 

 afforded for forwarding the fruit. The crop in the West and South- 

 west was very light, and thousands of barrels of Maine apples have 

 been sent to Chicago, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Omaha, and to 

 other points West and South. It may be well to note that on one 

 occasion an entire train loaded with apples was sent from the city 

 of Portland to the West. We regret to learn that much complaint 

 has been made of the quality of these apples, for it takes a long 

 time in trade as well as morals to overcome the ill odor that hovers 

 about a bad name. The foreign markets have been largely supplied 

 w^ith Canadian fruit, and most of the season prices have ruled low, 

 so low in fact that buyers have found the market in the states as 

 good or better. Several ocean steamers have provided artificial 

 ventilation for the apartments in which the fruit is stored. The 

 fruit stands up much better and reaches the foreign market in much 

 better condition. This suggests that there may be more satisfactory 

 methods of packing our fruit, especially such as sell for the dessert. 

 When this class of fruit is worth as much as oranges in the markets 

 of the world we are quite confident that fruit growers should take 

 as much pains in sorting and packing as do the orange growers of 

 Florida and California. 



As a pleasing incident in connection with our fru't interests it 

 gives us pleasure to call attention to the exhibit made by Mr. C. A. 

 Arnold, a member of our society from Arnold, at the Brockton, 

 Mass., fair which occurred shortly after ours. The officers of that 

 society were so well pleased with this exhibition, that although it 

 was missent and arrived late, a liberal gratuity was awarded Mr. 

 Arnold. We approve of making exhibits at other fairs and believe 

 it would pay for our fruit growers to follow it up. From this 

 particular exhibit we learned through several private sources, 

 satisfying us that Mr. Arnold deserves our thanks for making the 

 exhibit. 



There have been only two special meetings of the Executive Com- 

 mittee. Other meetings were held the day following our winter 

 meeting at Cornish and during the exhibition in Lewiston. It has 



