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right basis we can grow fruit of just as good color and of 

 far better quality than they can groAA^ in the AVest. 



This summer we expect to get out a premium list rather 

 early so you can set aside any fruit you may have for the 

 show. 



Prof. Fred C. Sears of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College then said : 



I Ihink we ought to make a campaign along the ques- 

 tion of quality. I think that the New England apple is the 

 best there is in quality and that the Western apple leads in 

 appearance. The average Western apple is a better looking 

 apple than we can grow here. The sunshine and clear air 

 make a fine looking apple, but we can beat them every time 

 on equality, and it seems to me that should be the watchword 

 we should take up. That is where we can beat them. 



My opinion in regard to the coming show is that it 

 should be largely a commercial proposition. The Western- 

 ers beat us hands down in packing and labeling of fruit. At 

 Spokane, they gave $100 for the first prize for the best 

 packed box, $50 for the second prize, and I think that we 

 ought to give liberal prizes all along the line. 



A committee, having been appointed to see what we as 

 a society will do at the exhibition next fall, reported as fol- 

 lows. 



Keport made by Mr. Race : 



This committee find that they are up against a propo- 

 sition, and that we cannot go outside of our own society 

 very well, as others have already formed organizations and 

 taken men right from our lists as officers, Adin A. Hixon,. 

 secretary of the Worcester Horticultural Society, being one- 

 of the vice-presidents, and J. Lewis Ellsworth, secretary of 

 the State Board of Agriculture, the president. 



Recommended that J. W. Clark, . S. T. Maynard and 

 Mr. Ellsworth be appointed a committee to cooperate with 

 the general committee for the benefit of the Massachusetts 

 Fruit Growers, that they use all means they see fit in cooper- 



