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us have felt that therewere quite a number of people inter- 

 ested in the growing of fruit who would not want to be 

 bothered with the dollar a year. It was propsed in Worces- 

 ter last March that we have a life membership to cost $20. 

 It was figured out that the interest on that $20 would bring 

 in very nearly a dollar to cover the expense. The question 

 has been raised since then that $20 for life membership was 

 no bargain, but the officers have felt that they couldn't af- 

 ford to give any bargains more than Ave are giving. We are 

 giving everything that we possibly can for the dollar. 1 

 have talked it over with some of the people whom I had in 

 mind to ask to become life members, and they have thought 

 that $20 was not too much ; in fact, one man here just pro- 

 posed to come in as an annual member, but said he didn't 

 like the trouble of paying that dollar every year, and I 

 asked him if he wouldn 't wait until after today, and he said 

 he would, gladly. I have a great many people in mind, such 

 as ex-Governor Draper and a number of others, who will 

 gladly come in as life members. For this reason Mr. Chair- 

 man, I am going to make a motion that we add to our by- 

 laws a clause making life membership, on the payment of 

 $20. 



PROFESSOR SEARS. It is understood that this has al- 

 ready been proposed at a former meeting, and Mr. Frost 

 now makes the motion that we change the by-laws so that 

 we can create a life membership for $20. Any second? Mr. 

 Frost said that people didn't like to be bothered with the 

 dollar a year, I am sure that I can assure him I am perfect- 

 ly willing to be bothered with a dollar a year, but I don't 

 think that there is any question that this is a good move and 

 that there are people who would prefer to get the thing over 

 with for life. 



(Motion seconded and unanimously passed). 



MR. WILFRID WHEELER OF CONCORD. I would 

 like to propose a motion which will come up for final action 

 at Worcester, which will be our annual meeting, to the ef- 

 fect that the compensation of the secretary, who now re- 



