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is why the premium list, the arrangement of it, and the amount 

 of premiums and everything of that kind stands just as it was 

 first announced. Well, now, we expected there would be 

 necessarily some little friction arising from misunderstandings, 

 misapprehensions, etc., but we felt that time would determine 

 just what should be done and if our relations continued with this 

 society, as I certainly hope they may, we tnay be able to more 

 fully meet the wants of fruit-growers and the public in making 

 exhibitions here. 



This exhibition work on our part is somewhat peculiar because 

 the purpose which we have in view is a little dififerent from that 

 for which most of the societies, or a good many of the societies 

 are run. Now our society is run entirely, or supposed to be run 

 entirely in the interests of the State, and it is proper it 

 should be so, because our receipts come almost entirely, or very 

 largely, from the State, so that while we put in attractions at 

 various points to give our exhibitions completeness, at the same 

 time we feel like doing all the educational work possible along 

 the ordinary highway of fruit culture; and I can assure you if 

 you could know the various ways in which the society is called 

 upon to answer questions and to take a hand in the department 

 of fruit-culture, you never for a moment would question the 

 usefulness of the society, and you would only regret that there 

 could not be placed in the hands of the society an amount of 

 funds that would enable it to reach more fully over the State so 

 as to cover all the interests of fruit culture present and pros- 

 pective. 



Mr. MuNSON — I have no formal paper to present before the 

 society to-night. I would like to make just a few remarks about 

 the future of our society. It seems to me we have here in the 

 line of the remarks of our worthy secretary, we have here a 

 society which is essentially for the fruit-growers of the State. 

 It is composed of the leading growers and pomological workers 

 in our State, and the question arises, "How are we going best 

 to make the society serve the ends for which it was organized?" 



It seems to me first of all that we must have an ideal in mind. 

 Our society, as already suggested, receives a certain amount of 

 money from the State. It owes a certain duty to the State. 

 Our responsibility does not end with the annual exhibition, or 



