NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 157 



With the greatly increased yield of fruit from our apple 

 and peach orchards, which is practically a certainty in the 

 near future, these fruit crop reports ought to be of much 

 value to us if they can be obtained reasonably accurate. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



J. NORRIS BARNES, 



C. E. LYMAN, 



A. N. FARNHAM, 



Committee. 



The President: You hear the report of your Commit- 

 tee on 'Markets and Transportation. What is your pleasure? 



Motion made, seconded and passed that it be accepted, 

 placed on file and published in the proceedings. 



Report of Exhibition Committee. 



At a meeting of your Committee and the Officers of the 

 Society held early in the )ear it was decided to hold our an- 

 nual fruit exhibit at the State Fair in Berlin the second week 

 in September, as that time seemed to be better suited for a 

 display of fruit, especially apples, than any other. Other 

 fair associations gave us very attractive invitations to hold 

 our exhibit with them, but everything being considered, it 

 seemed that Berlin was the best place to hold our exhibit. 



The total number of plates of fruit exhibited was not 

 as large as some years, but the quality of a greater part was 

 all that could be desired. Most of our members seemed to 

 have learned that it is useless to exhibit fruit of any but the 

 very best quality and appearance. The small amount of infe- 

 rior fruit noticed was mostly from new exhibitors who have 

 not yet learned to select exhibition specimens, but there were 

 a few plates from exhibitors who. have been there year after 

 year, which the judge did not consider worthy of premiums. 

 The trouble with these seemed to be not so much the selection 



