NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. ioi 



from all sections at our next annual meeting. If so, we hope 

 to see you up there, and have some of you tell us how you 

 do things down here. We have a great deal to learn. We 

 are going to get you up there because we want to learn how 

 to get prizes on some of these other varieties of apples be- 

 sides the Ben Davis that you seem to know how to grow down 

 here. 



I certainly appreciate very much this opportunity of 

 being here and meeting with you people, and I am sure if 

 the New Hampshire men had known that they were to be 

 represented here that they would have sent a most cordial 

 greeting. (Applause). 



The Toastmaster : Now we have another brother who 

 is President of the Massachusetts Fruit Growers, Mr. John 

 W. Clark. 



Mr. Clark : Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen : 

 I did not sit at the front table. I was seated over here very 

 pleasantly, and thinking how sorry I was that they were not 

 going to call on me. I am obliged to you that you did not 

 forget it, Mr. Toastmaster. 



In regard to the fru.it question in New England, I think 

 we have got to get where we ought to have been years ago. 

 We have been like a man who came into an office with a bag 

 in his hand, and he said to the proprietor, "I understand you 

 want to buy some pups ?" "Yes ; what kind of pups have 

 you got? What are they? Are they Republican pups or 

 Democratic pups?" The man said, "Those are Republican 

 pups." "Get out," said the man he was talking with, "I do 

 not want any Republican pups around here." In a few days 

 the man came back. He went into the same office, and he 

 said, "You want to buy some pups?" "Yes; what are they, 

 Republican or Democratic pups?" "Democratic pups," said 

 the man. "All right, let me see them." As soon as he saw 

 them he said, "Those pups are all right. They are Demo- 

 cratic pups. They have got their eyes open." (Laughter). 

 So when I think of the fruit industry of New England, I 



