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corrected by the new receipts reading to December 31st and 

 with the calendar year one can readily tell whether he is 

 entitled to the new report or not. 



EECOMMENDATIONS. No. 1. That a committee of 

 three be appointed by the chair to draft a new Constitution 

 and By-laws to be presented at our next annual meeting for 

 adoption. Important changes should be brought to the at- 

 tention of the members that they may be familiar with them 

 before the meeting for adoption. We have deciededly out- 

 grown our old Constitution and Bylaws. 



No. 2. That a vote be taken that it is the sense of this 

 meeting, that reports be sent only to paid up members (as 

 an inducement for prompt payment of dues) but all notices 

 of meetings, etc., be continued as usual. 



No. 3. That an inexpensive watch fob with the Asso- 

 ciation emblem be presented to all sending in three new 

 members at any one time. We believe some recognition 

 should be made of the work of members in this direction. 



No. 4. The thanks of this Association are tendered the 

 Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture ; The Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society; the Worcester County Horticul- 

 tural Society; the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and 

 ^11 those who have so ably and heartily assisted in making 

 the year so successful for the Association. 



As in the past let each member consider himself a 

 special committee, to bring in one new member during the 

 year for this is one way our numbers increase. 



It is as much in the province of this Association to pre- 

 vent the uninitiated from plunging on apple or fruit raising 

 as it is to help the regularly established fruit grower to 

 light his insect enemies to the best advantage. Too highly 

 colored reports are usually the cause coupled with a natural 

 tendency to return to the soil. A moment's thought of the 

 great surgeon and the average practitioner will immediately 

 show one that the thousand dollar fee is the exception rather 

 than the rule and so it is in the fruit growing line. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



F. HOWARD BROWN, 



'■ ' , , Secretary. 



