MASSACHUSETTS FRUIT GROWERS' 

 ASSOCIATION 



Fifteenth Annual Meeting, March JO-U, 



J 909 

 WEDNESDAY, MARCH JO, JO A. M. 



Notices having been duly sent out about 100 membert 

 and friends were present at Horticultural Hall, Worcester, 

 when the meeting was opened at 10.30 o'clock by Pres. J. 

 W, Clark of North Hadley who introduced Mayor Logan, 



Pres. Clark. I am very much pleased to hear that 

 Mayor Logan gets his living out of his orchard and that 

 the office of mayor is simply a side show. I take pleasure 

 in introducing to you Mayor Logan. 



Mayor Logan: Mr. President and Gentlemen: Yoii 

 are not here to have the mayor teach you anything about 

 fruit growing but during the year that has passed since I 

 met you before I trust we have all learned something, you 

 in the matter of fruit growing and I something in munici- 

 pal politics. Your President has said that I get my living 

 from my orchard. What a living I would have if it de- 

 pended on that ! I have the fun of taking care of 28 trees 

 in the rear of my house and I have the fun each fall of buy- 

 ing barrels to put them in and I then have the fun of giv- 

 ing them away and thus injuring your business because I 

 am cutting the market when I give my apples away. I anl 

 glad to extend to you the greetings of the city, but I have 

 wondered quite a little why you men of Massachusetts al- 

 low the people of Washington and Oregon to send in beau- 

 tiful apples for which we have to pay ten or fifteen cents 

 apiece but though these apples are beautiful to look at, they 

 do not have the flavor of apples grown here and I cannot 

 but wonder why you men allow this to be. 



If apples raised here could be sold for those prices I 

 might be able to live from my orchard which is in reality 

 a great expense to me as the assessors always find it and I 



