STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 3 1 



We are not using our water transportation facilities to the 

 extent they deserve, and at specific places it may be possible 

 to encourage such use by the presentation of rational plans. 



I will not detain you further with the enumeration of the 

 many specific problems that require study. The Department 

 realizes fully that it will be difficult to change practices whicn 

 have grown up through a long series of years. Nevertheless, 

 we are confident that a determination of points at which wastes 

 can be eliminated and the suggestion of methods for accom- 

 plishing this result will bring about many savings. 



In developing the work of the Office of Markets, I desire 

 to emphasize especially my wish that so far as possible this 

 work be done in cooperation with the colleges, stations and 

 departments of agriculture of the states. If you have problems 

 in the solution of which we can help you, let us know and we 

 will give our best efforts to assist. 



I hope that it will be possible for the Office of Markets to 

 develop a service which will be as definitely useful to the 

 farmers of the country with reference to marketing as that 

 furnished by other branches of the Department has come to be 

 in the province of production. 



Wednesday, November 19. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Mr. Howard L. Keyser, Greene. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: I am glad to welcome you here this 

 morning to the annual meeting of this society, and also to 

 congratulate our members on the encouraging outlook for our 

 future. 



After the season of 1912, and the greatest of all nightmares 

 of orchardists, over-production, we open the season of 191 3 

 with the greatest shortage of winter apples the world has 

 known for years. Surely nature is fickle, and in the usual 

 course of events the season of 1914 will most likely find our old 

 friend, over-production, with us again. And I want to say 

 here, there is no such thing as over-production until every man, 



