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PLYMOUTH COUNTY: Augustus Pratt, North Middleboro; 



Walton Hall, Marshfield. 



MIDDLESEX COUNTY: C. F. Hay ward, Ashby; M. P. Palmer, 



Groton; George F. Wheeler, Con- 

 cord; C. S. Pratt, Reading; E. F. 

 Farrar, South Lincoln. 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY : John W. Clark, North Hadley; E. 



Cyrus Miller, Hay<ienville. 



HAMPDEN COUNTY: Ethelbert Bliss, Wilbraham; L. W. 



Rice, Wilbraham. 



BERKSHIRE COUNTY: George G. Walker, Williamstown; R. 



H. Race, North Egremont. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY: M. H. Vincent, Conway; E. F. Cope- 

 land, Colrain. 



WORCESTER COUNTY : O. B. Hadwen, Worcester; S. J. Em- 

 erson, Lunenberg; E. A. Hersey, 

 Westboro; Elliott Moore, Worces- 

 ter; W. D. Ross, Worcester. 



Then followed an address by E. Cyrus Miller, Hayden- 

 viUe. 



POSSIBILITIES OF THE APPLE IN NEW ENGLAND 



"I consider it a great honor to be present here today, 

 and an especial honor considering the other speakers on the 

 program. I have had some experience in apple culture but 

 do not come down here today to give you any hot air but 

 to give you the results of my experience in apple culture 

 and it possibilities in New England. You know about the 

 man who went about telling what he knew about farming 

 who could give a very interesting and instructive address 

 but who had no farm. I do not propose to pose as that kind 

 of a speaker. I would like you to visit our orchards in 

 Hampden County and see what has been accomplished there 

 And you will admit that we have solved in a measure the 

 possibilities of apple culture here in New England. 



"It would seem that one need but affirm that the apple 

 Is our national fruit to have it immediately accepted by 

 -everyone as a self-evident fact. It has been well said that 

 the apple is the most perfect union of the useful and the 

 beautiful which the earth knows,' and surely no fruit in the 

 north temperate zone can take the place of the apple as a 



