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bly, supplemented by gifts from interested citizens and funds 

 from the Society, being sufficient to finance the undertaking 

 and complete it with marked success. But to the growers 

 who produced the splendid fruit and responded to the call 

 for exhibits belongs the chief credit for Connecticut's fine 

 display. The Agricultural College also furnished a valuable 

 exhibit for the Connecticut space. Our officers, committees 

 and members, including the ladies, worked hard for the suc- 

 cess of the undertaking, and feel that the results were well 

 worth all the time and labor expended. Cost to collect, in- 

 stall and maintain, $1,068.54. 



Publicity Campaign. 



Realizing that the interest in fruit growing aroused by 

 the New England Show had created an unequalled oppor- 

 tunity for exploiting the advantages of our state for the pro- 

 duction of fruits, the Society's Publicity Committee and 

 your officers decided last fall to start an advertising cam- 

 paign, and with the aid of the press, the railroads and others, 

 to direct public attention to the undeveloped possibilities in 

 the line of orcharding and fruit culture for both profit and 

 pleasure. 



The numerous inquiries coming from business men and 

 others in our own state, and even outside the state, would 

 seem to call for the publication of reliable information re- 

 garding best locations, available lands and proper methods of 

 planting and culture, for those desiring to go into the busi- 

 ness of fruit growing, and also to arouse our farmers and 

 fruit growers to extend their plantings and make fruit cul- 

 ture a more important industry in the state than it is at pres- 

 ent. We are already assured that our efforts in this direction 

 will meet with popular favor and that we shall have the 

 hearty cooperation of those who love fruits and are anxious 

 to see the development of this branch of Connecticut farming. 



A complete account of this proposed work will be given 

 von in the report of the Publicity Committee, and I will only 



