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JfllDDLESEX COUNTY: C. F. Hay ward. Ashby; M. P. Palm- 

 er, Groton; George P. Wheeler, 

 Concord; C. S. Pratt, Reading; E, 

 R. Farrar, South Lincoln. 



TTAMPSHTHE COUNTY: John W. Clark. North Hadley; E. 



Cyrus Miller, Haydenville. 



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 :S. J. Emerson, Lunenburg; O. B. 



Hadwen, Worcester; C. E. Parker. 

 Holden; James Draper. Worcester; 

 E. A. Hersey, Westboro; Elliott 

 Moore. Worcester. 



It was moved that the Secretary east one ballot for 

 this list of candidates. This was done and they were de- 

 clared elected. 



It was moved and voted that the salary of the Secre- 

 tary-Treasurer be made $50 per year. 



At 1.30 P. M., Mr. A. W. Fulton, Managing Editor New 

 England Homestead, read the following interesting and in- 

 structive lecture on 



CO-OPERATION IN SELLING FRUIT IN MASSACHU- 

 SETTS 



The preacher chooses his own text ; the politician inter- 

 mingles, sometimes without discrimination, fact and fancy; 

 but your secretary, our honored Prof. Maynard, issues his 

 instructions to say something on a specific subject. To me 

 his orders are : ' ' Tell the fruit growers something about 

 the co-operative marketing of apples in Massachusetts." As 

 has been said by a staunch supporter of the day we are to 

 celebrate next Saturday, there are no snakes in Ireland. So 

 I might also have the temerity to say in spite of Prof. May- 

 nard 's mandate, there is no co-operative marketing of ap- 

 ples in Massachusetts, nor for that matter any of conse- 

 quence in any part of New England. Our apples are mostly 



