Twentieth Annual Convention 



OF THE 

 MASSACHUSETTS FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION. 



Auditorium, Springfield, Mass., 

 January 15, 16 and 17, 1914. 



The Twentieth Annual Convention of the Massachusetts 

 Fruit Growers' Association was called to order at 11 o'clock 

 a. m. by the President, Mr. Harold L. Frost. 



THE PRESIDENT. If the convention will come to 

 order we will now begin our proceedings. . Unfortunately, 

 due to the weather I imagine, a great many of our members 

 are not present who intended to be with us today. Yester- 

 day the main switch house of the Boston & Maine Railroad 

 was burned and I understand that not a single train ran into 

 Boston, and one of our members told me he had to come 

 across country to Worcester and over the Boston & Albany, 

 and I suppose a large number who intended to be here, have 

 been prevented by similar difficulties. 



The first address this morning will be by Professor M, 

 A. Blake, Horticulturist, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, on 

 "Experiments and Observations with Peaches." We are 

 very proud to have Professor Blake here, as he was former- 

 ly a Massachusetts man, and I think we can claim we started 

 him, even if we didn't finish him up in his career, and we 

 hope to see him come back and make Massachusetts a good, 

 big peach state. 



There are really only two peach men that we know, — 

 Professor Blake and Mr. Hale of Connecticut, who I think 

 is here with us. We hope that Mr. Hale will ask Professor 

 Blake questions and help lead us in the right direction, so 

 that we will get a great deal of information. 



