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to me goes through the winter in good condition, as I hope 

 it will, we shall be able to put on at the opening of the show 

 a good stock. Of course our exhibit is nothing like the 300 

 barrels that the Western New York Society have, but they 

 went right into the market and bought. We did not do that. 

 This fruit of ours was all contributed, so far as I know. The 

 State Board of Agriculture has laid out a plan for exhibiting 

 this summer, and we are in hopes, provided the Legislature 

 will give us the money, to put on a show of fruit at the open- 

 ing of the Exposition, and then keep an exhibit there right 

 through until the show closes. It will mean a lot of work, 

 and I hope to have the cooperation of the members of this 

 Society. I shall be looking for fruits to put on there, and 

 shall probably be calling on you by letter or in some other way 

 for the specimens to put on. You are the ones that will have 

 to furnish it. Along towards the last of the season it is my 

 intention to visit some of the shows and solicit the whole 

 exhibit that may be there; take out what I want, what I con- 

 sider worth while, and send that on, and about the ist of 

 October I shall expect to be able to put on there about as 

 handsome a show of apples and fruit of a general character as 

 has ever been shown from Connecticut. We expect to beat 

 our last year's exhibition by 50 per cent. We shall have 

 instead of 800 plates, a thousand of them, and make a grand 

 show. When our annual show is about over 1 shall move to 

 confiscate the whole business, and ship it to Buffalo to finish 

 up our show there with. That is the plan I have." 



The President: 'T would like to ask if Professor Gulley 

 intends to show any Connecticut peaches?" 



Professor Gulley: "Oh, yes. I referred to that in a 

 general way. Through the peach season — yes, sir. And the 

 same way with other fruits. From the ist of August, and 

 following it up through the season there is no reason why we 

 should not be able to show all our fruits. My idea is we 

 shall have to put on about three times a week from the ist 

 of June up to the ist of August, anyhow. Then in August 

 we shall have to handle peaches and plums. The fruits can 

 be shipped from here by express and reach there the next day, 

 and our stock will have to be replenished in that way right 



