FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 109 



S<iciet\. Botli of these organizations are established for 

 much the same purpose, to upbuild the interests of the fruit 

 o^rowcrs in their respective states, and I feel very confident 

 thev are accomplishing- wonderful results. I know the New 

 York state fruit growers are heart and soul with all of your 

 people for the work in hand, and to further evidence that 

 statement they have arranged, in cooperation with your soci- 

 ety, to hold a joint meeting in New York city on the 15th 

 and i6th of February, the announcement of which will be 

 made later, and as a member of the New York State Fruit 

 Growers' Association, T hope you will all be there, and have 

 a good time, and derive much profit from the joint meeting. 



President Gulley next introduced 'Sir. E. C. Powell of 

 Springfield, ]\Iass., who spoke as follows : 



Mr. E. C. Powell: Air. President, and Ladies and Gen- 

 tlemen : I see a good many familiar faces here, although I have 

 not been with you before in two years, but my thoughts were 

 with you last year, even though I could not come, so I thought 

 this year I would take a day off and run down and see you. 

 I brought a pretty good delegation with me. I think there 

 were seven of us from Massachusetts, four peach growers 

 from Wllbraham and one large apple grower, and two poor 

 newspaper men. I am very glad to be with you, and wish 

 I could only stay longer. We have our state fruit meeting 

 at Worcester next March. I think some of your members 

 have been with us before, and I hope to see some of you there 

 again. 



President Gulley then called on E. Cyrus !\Iiller of Hay- 

 denville, Mass., who spoke as follows : 



Mr. E. Cyrus Miller: Mr. President, Ladies and Gen- 

 tlemen : I assure you that it is a pleasure to be here to-night, 

 and a pleasure to have been here to-day. for the meeting you 

 had this afternoon has been an inspiration to me. I did not 

 realize that this meeting was to be so large, and as enthusi- 

 astic as it has proved to be, and I have had an experience 

 which I had not anticipated, ever since I heard through the 

 courtesv of one of vour members that vou were to have a 



