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of the Connecticut Pomological Society, who is present. Mr. 

 Barnes will please come forward. 



PRESIDENT J. NORRIS BARNES, OF CONNECTI- 

 CUT. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : I appreciate 

 the courtesy extended to me as a representative of the Con- 

 necticut Pomological Society. It is something of a surprise 

 to me, however, but I am very glad to be present and 

 bring greetings to you from the Connecticut fruit growers. 

 Certainly I am enjoying the enthusiasm and the good work 

 that you are giving forth here in this meeting, and it is not 

 hard for me to imagine that I am among Connecticut people 

 for one of our annual meetings in Hartford, in point of at- 

 tendance and enthusiasm and interest which you show here. 

 I think there are quite a number of Connecticut people here 

 with me, enjoying the good things that you are having. We 

 appreciate this interest M'hicli you are exhibiting and I think 

 that it promises much for the future of the fruit growing 

 interest in Massachusetts. I should like to make an an- 

 noimcement at this time that the Connecticut Pomological 

 Society's annual meeting will be held in Hartford, February 

 5th and 6th, at Footguard Hall. We shall be glad to have 

 ah- many of you present with us as possible and we will do 

 our best to make the meeting worth your while. I thank 

 you. (Applause). 



PRESIDENT FARQUHAR. I think Mr. Frost of Ar- 

 lington has a word to say to us. Mr. Frost? 



PRESIDENT H. L. FROST. I asked President Far- 

 quhar if I might not just give you the numbers of those at- 

 tending these meetings, because I thought it might be inter- 

 esting. Yesterday morning there were 619, besides the ex- 

 hibitors; yesterday afternr)on there w^ere 820. We figured 

 there are about 100 exhibitors, so that you can add one hun- 

 dred to these figures. This morning there were 493, and 

 this afternoon, since noon, there have been about 550 come 

 in. Our Fruit Growers' Association has already taken in 

 over 300 members and it looks as though we would reach 

 the 1,000 mark tonight. (Applause). 



