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er before the last, I think I covered the questions in my fee- 

 ble efforts on the platform. I outlined the three grades that, 

 in my opinion, would be the assortment that would fit our 

 home market demand. Now, he asks how may they best 

 reach that. I also suggested and hoped that this Association 

 would assume such proportions that it could afford to main- 

 tain instructors and inspectors. The best way to accom- 

 plish a thing is to be taught how to do it, and if you can 

 get the proper instructors and the subject is and wants to be 

 honest, it is only a question then of intelligence, and that, I 

 believe, this organization has. (Applause). 



PRESIDENT FROST. I want to state that I think that 

 in Massachusetts our Agricultural College Extension Work, 

 with our experimental orchards, is attempting this in the 

 best possible way. They are doing a great work in the or- 

 chard line and have scattered experiment orchards through- 

 out the state, and right here, downstairs, Ave are to have 

 packing demonstrations. The Agricultural College Packing 

 Expert, Mr. Rees of Oregon, has his apparatus and fruit, and 

 before and after lectures as well as any other time that there 

 is a demand for it he will show the method of packing, es- 

 pecially the box packing. Everyone who attended the 

 Massachusetts Fruit Show last November would have seea 

 the college exhibit, showing barrels with one stave out, show- 

 ing the poor packing and the good packing. Are there any 

 other questions? 



PROFESSOR STIMSON. The question has been asked 

 as to how we are going to get this knowledge spread about. 

 The Board of Education has an appropriation from the state 

 for helping support agricultural instructors in high schools. 

 These instructors take their vacations in the winter and they 

 are on duty through the summer. They help the boys who 

 are growing fruit, and help the fathers of the boys so far as 

 the fathers want help. Naturally, the fathers watch the 

 boys with the sharpest of eyes and watch the instructors, 

 and some of the most interesting things done this fall have 

 been done in connection with the studying ®f different varie- 



