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The President: "I will ask Mr. E. M. Ives to report for 

 the Committee on Membership." 



Mr. Ives: "Mr. President and Members: It seems to 

 me that our Society's growth is an all-important thing, and I 

 wish it might be so regarded among the fruit-growers of Con- 

 necticut. We may think that we get a little aid from the state, 

 and that our dollar apiece that we pay in does not amount to 

 very much in helping out the Society, but our urgent needs are 

 so great that we want all the dollars that we can get, and the 

 increase in our membership is one of the things which gives our 

 Society prestige, and at the same time gives us a strong incen- 

 tive to work. We all want to build up a large, vigorous society, 

 and while we have had a fair measure of success in that line of 

 late we want to be still more successful, and that object would 

 be attained if all would join this Society which gives us such 

 good results. It costs only a dollar to join, and that certainly is 

 not very much to put out when you consider the benefit that 

 comes every year, especially with our publication. I think our 

 most prolific source of membership is perhaps in our institutes 

 and field meetings. We often drop right into new territory, 

 and thereby secure new members. We cannot always get them 

 out, but by going to them, and bringing to the growers the 

 benefits of our meetings, it interests them, and has a strong 

 influence in inducing them to join. 



"I think it will be a great benefit to us if we can have a few 

 institutes held during the coming months. If there are any 

 openings for us I am sure we can soon arrange a program, and 

 we can give a good program, too, without going out of the 

 state for speakers. We have plenty of material here; men who 

 are able to interest an audience in any part of the state, and I 

 hope there will be openings for several institutes this coming 

 spring. Now I hope to see a good many, or all of the present 

 membership that are here, give us their dollar. Encourage the 

 Society by renewing your membership. Keep in touch with it." 



Mr. Hale: "Mr. President, I want to say just a word 

 about this committee report. We have interfered with the 

 dignity of our conventions, somewhat, in years gone by in con- 

 stant urging of our members to do their duty, to pay their dues. 

 We have had to do it. Week before last I was out at a meet- 



