PART TWO. 



A Brief Record of Field Meetings, 



Exhibitions, Institutes, Etc., 



Held in 1906. 



Summer Field Meetings. 



At a meeting of the Society's Executive Committee early 

 in the summer, it was decided to carry out the usual series of 

 summer field days upon the farms of meml)ers who were will- 

 ing to entertain the Society, and the Secretary was directed 

 to look up locations for such meetings. Correspondence with 

 some of the leading fruit growers in the State resulted in 

 promises for a numl)er of meetings, extending through the 

 berry, peach and apple seasons, but the unexpected wet season 

 with the consequent delay to all farm work made it necessary 

 to withdraw the invitations for the present at least, nuich to 

 the regret of every one. 



Members have come to look forward to these annual sum- 

 mer gatherings as being the most enjoyable and ])roritable of 

 all the manv good meetings of our Society and no one disliked 

 to 1)e obliged to give them up more than those whi» had 

 promised to act as hosts. 



The grower who entertains liis fellow farmers for a day and 

 invites their study and criticism of his farm and orcliards often 

 derives more benefit tlierefrom than do those who arc the 

 visitors. 



It was especially to be regretted that no suitable place could 

 be found for the usual "Peach Meeting," for with the aliun- 

 dant peach crop of 1906 such a gathering in the interests of 

 peaches would have been of immense value to all concerned in 

 their production and handling. However, we are all looking 

 forward with interest' to the coming season, when some of 



