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divided under four general heads as follows: Installing 

 exhibit, $330.00; express on fruits, $172.75; collecting fruit, 

 $405.00, and care of exhibit, $370.00, which totals, less proceeds 

 of sale of material at close of Exposition, leaves the above 

 amount as the expense of the exhibit, and which amount, in 

 connection with that used in the other departments, was prob- 

 ably as profitably invested as it could have been in any other 

 method of advertising the farm products of Connecticut. 



Mr. J. H. Hale: I think there is just one thing which, per- 

 haps, was not made clear in Prof. Gulley's report, that it was 

 impossible for him to get fruit shipped from the State. It 

 was not due to the fact that there was no good fruit to send. 

 The real trouble was, so far as I know, and I know it was the 

 trouble with me and with many of my friends wdio had good 

 fruit, and good-looking fruit, — the real trouble was, we had 

 so much and such continued wet weather we did not dare ship 

 it. Lots of people who would have shipped did not think it was 

 wise to waste the express money because the fruit was very 

 liable to get into a condition where it would go down in a few 

 hours. The real trouble was the continued wet weather during 

 the summer. The growers in Connecticut would have kept 

 those tables piled up, and would have used up Prof. Gulley's 

 surplus money, and more, too, if it had not been for the weather 

 conditions. 



Prof. Gulley : We had had so much wet weather that the 

 frliit this year would not stand up for the average time. 

 Peaches, from twenty-four to forty-eight hours under the best 

 conditions that we could get this year. Strawberries, from 

 twenty-four to forty-eight hours, and in a few c^ses about three 

 days. Blackberries, about one day, and raspberries, about one 

 day. It was not safe to keep fruit any longer than was abso- 

 lutely necessary for fear it would go down on account of the 

 wet, damp weather. 



Mr. Sternberg : I would say that I had a bushel of very fine 

 cherries, which I had had picked with the intention of sending 

 them to the fair, and the following morning after they were 

 picked, when I was getting ready to pack them I found that 

 about three-quarters of them had gone with the rot, so I con- 

 cluded it was not best to ship them. 



At this point the meeting took a recess until the afternoon 

 session. 



