FIRST ANNUAL MEETING (1892) 



THE first annual meeting of the young Society was 

 held at Hartford, in room No. 50, at the Capitol, 

 January 26 and 27, 1892, with a large attendance. 



President Smith, in his address, referring to the objects 

 and methods of the Society, said, in part : 



"Our Society was born of the natural law, *No man 

 liveth to himself alone.' We accept the principle, and 

 hence our Association. We want to know each other better. 

 By meeting together we not only have social enjoyment, 

 but we can increase our intelligence, learn how to improve 

 and increase our methods and better our products. 



"It is not possible for one man by himself to reach the 

 greatest excellence. Peaches in Delaware, grapes along the 

 Hudson, plums about Geneva and apples in Niagara county 

 do not prevail so much because the soil is especially 

 adapted to their culture, as because men profit by the 

 example of their neighbors, both in success and failure. 



"Through the meetings of our Society we are given 

 opportunities to learn of scientists and practical fruit grow- 

 ers, to talk over our own successes, failures and hopes, to 

 hold field meetings on the farms of our members where we 

 can bring our families together, to better advertise our 

 goods, to secure legislation for the benefit of fruit growers, 

 — in short, to grow and improve ourselves, and thus 

 increase and improve our business." 



The following well-arranged programme was successfully 

 carried out : 



PROGRAMME 



V FIRST DAY 



Potash for Fruit Trees, and in What Form to Use It 



Prof. S. W. Johnson, 



Director New Haven Experiment Station 



Poultry and Fruit CuUure A. C. Hawkins, Lancaster, Mass. 



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