108 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



I will not take your time further, Mr. Chairman. I 

 thank you for calling upon me. I cannot wish for this society 

 any greater thing than to wish you the same prosperity for 

 the year 1910 as you have enjoyed in 1909. (Applause). 



President Gold: When the storms drive, the winds 

 blow, and the waves beat high, you have all. been taught to 

 get under the lee side of the shore. To-night, we have 

 with us the President of the Connecticut Dairymen's Associa- 

 tion. I am going to call upon the Hon. Wilson H. Lee of 

 New Haven. 



Mr. Lee : Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : I 

 was very much pleased to-night when Dr. Twichell compli- 

 mented the appearance of this audience, and I was reminded 

 of the time when we had the State Board meeting in Decem- 

 ber, in New Haven, when one of the evening papers stated 

 in an editorial that the farmers of the state were holding a 

 convention in our city, and that it was very easy to tell one 

 when you met him on the street, because they were so much 

 better looking, so much better dressed, and had such a pros- 

 perous appearance that they could easily be told from a busi- 

 ness man. Like the southern girl who was sent to a fashion- 

 able New York boarding school. She was the daughter of 

 an undertaker. When asked the business of her father, fear- 

 ing, if she should tell the truth, she would lose cast, she said 

 that he was a southern planter (Laughter), showing that the 

 planters and farmers stand well in the south. 



I am so pleased that so many of you have gotten together 

 here to-night at this banquet. It is one of the best places 

 in the world to rub off the rough edges in life, and at which 

 to get acquainted. You have given us a good dinner. I am 

 sure that you all have enjoyed yourselves. I know I have. 

 The other day a gentleman had occasion to stop at a hotel 

 and he made a complaint that he found a hair in his ice 

 cream, another in his honey, and another in his apple pie. 

 The landlord said to him that it was a very easy thing to see 

 how it came in his ice cream, that it came from the shaving 



