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be able to close early enough today to visit them and we 

 also ought to give them some time tomorrow morning. We 

 also wish you would stay over and meet the commission men. 

 They are coming here from Boston and Worcester, and then 

 there are the Springfield men, and they want to get 

 together with the fruit growers and see if we can't come to 

 some better understanding in regard to selling and market- 

 ing our fruit. 



We have an invitation from the H. P. Stone Company 

 and the H, J. Perkins Company, both very large commission 

 men here in Springfield, to visit their plants, and they will 

 show us every courtesy, and I wish we all might to do that. 

 Both of these gentlemen have been very generous. H. P. 

 Stone furnished this fruit and the samples of packing, and 

 Mr. Perkins is paying for the large advertising banner 

 across Main Street, and has also put in quite an exhibit in 

 our exhibition hall. It has been suggested that we meet 

 here at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, and then we will 

 make a circuit of the plants of the commission men. 



Now, for this afternoon's session we are going to have 

 an address on "Experiments on Cultural Methods, Cover- 

 crops and Fertilization in Apple Orchards", by Dr. J, P. 

 Stewart, Experimental Pomologist of the Pennsylvania 

 State College, Dr, Stewart has spent a good deal of time 

 on this subject and has a great deal to say and he has con- 

 densed it so that we should get much information which 

 will be of great value, Dr, Stewart gives the results of a 

 number of experiments covering a period of several years 

 in widely separated localities, and without doubt is the best 

 informed of anyone on this subject, in the country. I now 

 take pleasure in presenting Dr. J. P. Stewart of Pennsyl- 

 vania. (Applause.) 



