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Program. 



Tuesday Evening^ November 12 — Opening session at 7.30. 

 Invocation, Rev. L. H. Clarke, Gardiner; Address of Welcome, 

 Mayor Will C. Atkins, Gardiner; Response, Wm. Craig of 

 Auburn; Address of President, Z. A. Gilbert, North Greene; 

 Reports of Officers : Secretary, Treasurer, Executive Commit- 

 tee; ]\Iember of Experiment Station Council, Chas. S. Pope, 

 Manchester. 



Wednesday Forenoon — Standing of the Insect Invasion and 

 Condition of our Orchards, Prof. E. F. Hitchings, State Ento- 

 mologist; Discussion; Non-Parasitic Diseases of Fruit Trees, 

 Prof. W. J. Morse, Orono ; Discussion. 



Wednesday Afternoon — Fruit Growing at Oaklands, Robert 

 H. Gardiner, Esq., Gardiner; Home Storage for Fruit, T. L. 

 Kinney, South Hero, Vt. ; Discussion ; Maine Fruit as It 

 Appears to Others, A. A. Hixon, Secretary Worcester County 

 Hort. Society, Worcester, Mass. ; Discussion. 



Wednesday Evening — Banquet, A. O. U. W. Hall, opposite 

 Johnson House, 8 o'clock. 



Thursday Morning — Election of Officers; Reception Meet- 

 ing; The State Agricultural Department, Hon. A. W. Gilman, 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, Augusta; The Grange Co-opera- 

 tive Company, W. T. Guptill, Topsham, Treasurer. Others are 

 expected to be present representing other horticultural societies 

 and kindred organizations. 



Round Table — The Size of the Apple Package : The Barrel, 

 F. H. Morse, Waterford ; Discussion opened by F. D. Cum- 

 mings, Portland ; The Box, Discussion opened by E. L. Lincoln, 

 Wayne; A Maine Cranberry Bog, G. D. Libbey, Gardiner. 



Thursday Afternoon — Delegates' Meeting; Resolve passed 

 at the Annual Meeting in 1905 : 



That this Society, recognizing the substantial growth of our 

 fruit industry and realizing the necessity for a more critical 

 grading of the stock, for the protection of the grower, declares 

 in favor of national legislation looking to a Fruit Marks Act, 

 and authorizes the appointment of a committee whose duty it 

 shall be to correspond with the officers of the Fruit Growers' 

 Associations in the several states, and if a general sentiment is 



