culty in securing its dairy speaker for the afternoon session^ 

 your Secretary left the matter entirely in the hands of the 

 Agricultural Society, as the time was too short before the 

 meeting to warrant further delays necessary where two dif- 

 ferent parties are working from a distance. 



A recommendation for future institutes would be, to 

 have fruit and kindred subjects handled by the speakers 

 who represent the Agricultural societies and not have dairy 

 or non-fruit lectures at our joint meetings ; the other sub- 

 jects having their proper places at the regular institutes 

 of the societies. 



The special thanks of the Association are tendered 

 Secretary Ellsworth of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 without whose aid and hearty support the holding of these 

 meetings would have been impossible, and to the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, the Franklin County, Middle- 

 sex North, Middlesex South and the 'Essex County Agri- 

 cultural Societies, the Woman 's Relief Corps of Coirain, and 

 Lunenburg, Framingham and Danvers Granges, and to all 

 who have contributed to the success of the meetings ; for 

 the hearty response, the spirit of co-operation and assist- 

 ance given in holding the institutes. 



FIELD MEETINGS 



IMany attempts were made during the past .year to hold 

 field meetings, but without success. It has become evident 

 that such meetings* must be arranged far in advance, and 

 provisional promises obtained subject to crop conditions. 



On this basis meetings have been planned for as follows: 



1. Strawberry meeting with "Wilfred Wheeler at Con- 

 cord in June. 



2. Last of July. Early Apples at Littleton, at the Drew, 

 Munson Co's orchards. 



3. At Wilbraham, the middle of August. Early Peaches 

 with L. W. Rice. 



4. At Berlin, with Alh?rt A. Jacobs, Elbertas early 

 in September. 



5. Late September, at Newbury where the Russet 

 grows to perfection, centering with Mr. Frank Perkins. 



6. At the grounds of the IMassachusetts Agriculturai 

 College with trips to the Mount Warner orchards of ex- 

 president John W. Clark and to the newly set Bay Road 



