Il6 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



We cannot help it. In talking to a class of forty-two boys 

 under my instruction, I have frequently said to them, "If I 

 can keep some of you from becoming farmers I will have 

 done well by you." If the Pomological Society can keep 

 some of these fellows from going into fruit growing we will 

 have done well by them. 



I thank you. (Applause). 



President Gold: We have a few more that we are 

 going to ask to speak. We have a man from Massachusetts 

 whom we all admire, Mr. Wilfred Wheeler of Concord. 



Mr. W'heeler : Mr. President and friends of the Pom- 

 ological Society : I know about how you all feel. You feel 

 just like one of the members of the congregation of a certain 

 parish up in the country where the minister had been preach- 

 ing on the prophets of the Old Testament. He had placed 

 all the major prophets in their proper order, and finally came 

 down to the minor ones, and said: "The first of the minor 

 prophets is Hosea. Now where shall we place him?" A man 

 in the back part of the church said, "Hosea can have my 

 seat. I am going home." (Laughter). I think that is about 

 the way you all feel to-night. There is one thing that I 

 want to leave with you, a thought which has not been touched 

 on as yet to-night, and that is the necessity for educating the 

 people in the consumption of fruit. We are teaching people 

 to raise and produce apples of the most attractive character, 

 and all that, but we are not doing enough to teach the peo- 

 ple the use of our products. If you will stop a moment and 

 recall the history of the United Fruit Company, which started 

 here a few years ago, you will remember that the first thing 

 they did was to advertise their fruit products. They went 

 down south and commenced to raise their fruit, but they 

 found that the consumers in the United States did not know 

 what they were, and did not use them in sufficient quantities. 

 So they spent a million dollars in advertising their products. 

 They took shipload after shipload of bananas and other fruits, 

 brought them to our ports, to New Orleans and 



