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and make a charge to all the dealers, which should l;e 

 quite an income for the Association. The Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society has a membership somewhere around 

 a thousand, and as near as I can remember only a very few 

 of them ever heard of the ]\Iassachusetts Fruit Growers* 

 Association. Some of us feel that if you could have a good 

 big meeting a"" ^heir hall we could increase our membership 

 to a grea ex'cn\ As ]).Ir. Wheeler said, within the last 

 month ihey have held two fruit mee1ijig3 here, at which 

 there have been in the vicinity of 400 present at each. 



President. You hear this invitation of the Massachus- 

 etts Horticultural Society to hold a meeting on the second 

 week in January, at Horticultural Hall. 



President. All in favor of accepting this invitation of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society please manifest it 

 by raising the hand. Contrary minded? It is a vote. 



Anything further before calling the next speaker, Mr. 

 Castner. 



Mr. Frost. I would like to propose for action to be 

 taken next year — it can't come up for voting until the next 

 meeting — that" we have a life membership list, with dues of 

 $20. I am doing this because I feel that many wealthy men 

 are interested in fruit, who would join our Association if 

 they could pay their dues for life rather than have an an- 

 nual payment of one dollar. I simply propose this to come 

 up at the next meeting. 



President. It will be brought up at the next annual 

 meeting. 



Mr. Stowe. One of our members brought ud the other 

 day the question of appropriations made by the State and 

 asked some of us to consider it. As you know. Governor 

 Foss declined to sign the appropriation for the spraying of 

 \)rowntail and gypsy moths for the next three years, think- 

 ing it was too much money and on Saturday he sent a mes- 

 sage to the House asking for a bill to be enacted appropriat- 

 ing $50,000 to carry out the work of the browntail and gyp- 

 sy moth men through this year. Then, on top of that he says 

 that the foreign governments are having great luck with 

 birds and he wants a bill put through appropriating $50,000 

 for experimenting with birds to kill the brown tails and 

 gypsies. Now, it seems to some of us that $50,000 cou.d 

 be expended in a great many better ways than that. We 



