go STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Red Winter." The variety is supposed to have originated at 

 Parkville, Missouri. It is a rather shy bearer, and does not 

 appear to us to be well adapted to growth so far north as your 

 State. It is not now being planted in a commercial way in any 

 part of the country so far as is known to us."" 



OUR MARKETS. 

 By Dr. G. M. Twitchell, Augusta, Me. 



In the changes taking place in the industrial world, the organ- 

 ization or association assuming to assist or direct any special 

 lines of work must conform to these new conditions and sustain 

 itself by actively leading in whatever will best serve its members. 

 Especially is this true of an organization aided by the State and 

 created to promote an industry. No matter if the original con- 

 ception is entirely wiped out, if the first declaration of principles 

 be forgotten, or if the standard of the original leaders be super- 

 seded, there is but one course to be pursued and that is to serve 

 the public along the line of least resistance and in accord with 

 the best light and knowledge of an ever changing present. It 

 is not always easy to grasp the full significance of this, yet it is 

 a truism which must be accepted, and accepted in a manner to 

 be made active, or the day of usefulness has passed. He who 

 best serves the fruit interests of 1905 must be prepared to throw 

 over many preconceived ideas and long established practices. 



The essential principles remain the same, but methods, prac- 

 tices, markets and details have radically changed. I take it that 

 this society, like others, has become fixed in many of its prac- 

 tices, yet it may seriously be questioned whether these do not 

 stand in need of modification to suit the conditions prevailing 

 today. We discuss the same general line of topics and are 

 hardly ready to permit what we consider heresy to be presented, 

 even though that heresy may become accepted truth within a 

 few years. I rejoice in this spirit of conservatism, for it saves 

 from' loss of chart and compass, yet if it were allowed to domi- 

 nate we should be working the same old craft as was launched 

 forty years ago and in the same manner. 



