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successful, and that the attendance and interest at the meetings 

 which you are to hold may be so satisfactory, that you will have 

 no reason to regret that you decided to make our little town your 

 place of meeting in 1906. You who have come within the gates 

 of the Grange are well aware that one of its leading mottoes is ; 

 "Whatever we do, let us strive to do well." I think that I am 

 safe in saying that this is a principle that our town usually 

 follows, and I trust that in our treatment of you, pomologists of 

 Maine, we may be able to demonstrate the truth of this state- 

 ment. 



RESPONSE TO ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 

 By Charles E. Wheeler, of Chesterville. 



In behalf of the officers and members of the Maine State 

 Pomological Society, it gives me great pleasure to accept this 

 cordial welcome. This grand organization of which you are a 

 part is ever in the front ranks, for the up-building of society. 

 Xo organization in this State has done more to take the home 

 life upon the farm from out the ruts of drudgery. Meeting 

 as you do each week or fortnight in your subordinate homes, 

 there to discuss every phase of farm and home life, you not 

 only create within each brother or sister, a desire to be more of 

 a man or woman, but it extends to those of a younger age, and 

 they come upon the stage of life better fitted to make the man 

 or w^oman of the twentieth century ideal. 



We convene here on this occasion to hold our 33d annual 

 session. 



The years of the past stand as a matter of history and, step 

 by step, year by year, we have been gathering up the results of 

 actual work along the lines of Pomology and a truer citizenship. 

 Sifting out and separating from that experience which may to 

 the fruit grower be either failure or success. 



If this society had no object to attain but the word success 

 measured from a financial standpoint, I fear it would fall far 

 short of the intent of its founders, so, day by day, we go on 

 hand in hand with you working for that success. 



This society for all these years of work has had an object 

 ever in view and that is, to point out and lead each and every 

 fruit grower of this good State of ours to surer success. 



