CONTENTS 



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Secretary's Report 5 



The 1904 Situation 5 



The Markets 5 



Meetings of the Society 6 



Officers for 1904 g 



Members of the Society — Life 10 



Annual 11 



Treasurer's Report 13 



Business Transactions 16 



Meetings of Executive Committee 16 



Public Meetings 18 



Orchard Meeting 18 



Annual Meeting 19 



Officers for 1905 20 



Report of Committee on Sweepstakes Prize 21 



Resolutions 22 



Report of Committee on Resolutions 23 



Papers, Addresses and Discussions : 



Annual Invocation, by Rev. George Merriam 25 



Annual Address of Welcome, by Hon. Charles A. oMarston, 26 



Response to same, by Dr. Geo. M. Twitchell 27 



Annual Address, by Pres. Z. A. Gilbert 28 



Lessons Taught at Our Orchard Meeting : 



What a Young Fruit Grower Learned, by Edward 



L. White 33 



Home Fertilizers and Cultivation, by V. P. DeCoster 35 

 How Trees Dressed with "Fisher Fertilizer" Last 



Year Behaved This Year, by S. H. Dawes 38 



Talk About the Experiments and Results, by Prof. 



W. M. Munson 47 



Fundamental Principles, by H. P. Gould 51 



Commercial Orcharding in the United States, by H. P. 



Gould S6 



Favorable Conditions in Maine, by R. H. Libbey 64 



Profitable Fruit Growing in Maine, by E. H. Cook 68 



Same, by L. H. Blossom 71 



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