MASSACHUSETTS FRUIT GROWERS' 

 ASSOCIATION 



Sixteenth Annual Meeting, March 9-10, 



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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 10.30 A. M. 



The sixteenth annual meeting was called to order by 

 Pres. John W. Clark of North Hadley at about 10.30 Wednes- 

 day morning. Mayor James Logan welcomed the Association 

 to the city as follows : 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I have not any formal address to make today, simply 

 to extend greeting of the city. I had the pleasure last year 

 of saying a few words at the opening of your conference, 

 and your president asked me today if I was still getting my 

 living out of my orchard, to which he then referred, and I 

 am glad to say that I am getting it out of it, certainly not 

 in it. 



Now the years pass quickly and many have been called 

 away from us since we last met and I think we may con- 

 gratulate ourselves that we are still here and have our 

 chance. 



I believe thoroughly in New England, I believe in Mas- 

 sachusetts, and I believe more than all in "Worcester and 

 Worcester county; but we must do business on a business 

 basis, and if I may be allowed to suggest I would say that 

 the farmer has been all too slow to realize that fact. We 

 must put our best foot forward in good old New England. 

 We have the best market for selling fruit that this country 

 affords. The problem in business is not so much to manu- 

 facture goods as to sell them at a profit. 



Now with the market right at our doors the selling of 

 fruit is in a sense your burden, for the market is here. I 

 confess to just a little humiliation to know that apples come 



