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one at Middletown. There were a few samples shown at 

 different meetings, but that was our show of the year. Those 

 of you who were there don't need to be told about it, and 

 those of you who were not there and did not see it do not 

 deserve to be told about it. It is possible, however, that there 

 are some who would have been there if they could. The 

 secretary has already referred to it, but I can say this* that so 

 far as any exhibition of fruits that I have seen since I came 

 east of the Hudson river is concerned, it was far ahead of any- 

 thing. Certainly those who saw this exhibit can be sure that 

 Connecticut can produce good fruit, and we have some ex- 

 hibitors to bring it out, and they are becoming better educated 

 in that line right along. That exhibit showed that they are 

 increasing very rapidly in knowledge of fruit. That is one 

 thing which the fruit which has been produced in the last four 

 years has shown. There has been not only more of it but it 

 has been in very much better shape, and better named. That 

 exhibition was certainly full of encouragement to fruit-growing 

 in Connecticut. 



"Now, aside from our exhibit, and that is about all that 

 belongs directly to this Society, but some of you are aware 

 that it has been supposed to look after the exhibit of the state 

 at the Pan-American Exposition. That is the work of the 

 State Board of Agriculture. This Society has not been called 

 on for assistance in any shape except for fruit for that show, 

 They have paid all the bills, and furnished the means for 

 carrying out the work, although I have been appointed by this 

 Society as its delegate to carry out this work. I began the 

 work at the Middletown meeting and gathered up several 

 barrels of fine fruit, which I took to my house and re-sorted, 

 and then repacked and had it placed in cold storage. I have 

 sent out a good many circulars asking for fruit for this exhibi- 

 tion, and altogether have received in response about twenty 

 barrels of apples for this work. Those who have furnished 

 this fruit are all, with a very few exceptions, members of this 

 Society, and every man who in response to that circular agreed 

 to send fruit has done so with one exception. I sent out 

 about 150 circulars, and I had some dozen or fifteen responses 

 that they could not do it. If the fruit which has been sent 



