EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 3 



business men of our country reached their position by easy 

 work and carelessness? No, they have worked hard and 

 often late, g'iving attention to all the little details with energ-y 

 and snap, together with business principles. 



With a given amount of intelligence, attention and busi- 

 ness methods there is no calling that will insure so certain a 

 reward as Agriculture. Your President has had the pleas- 

 ure to represent the Society at a conference in Boston in re- 

 gard to teaching Agriculture in our public schools. 



Personally, I think our public schools have too much 

 other necessary work to undertake this subject. Time is too 

 short ; the more advanced schools might take it up with profit. 



At a meeting of the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation in Worcester last March an association was formed 

 for closer unity of all Horticultural interests in New England, 

 with especial emphasis on uniform rules or laws for packages 

 and packing and grading of fruit for market. A second meet- 

 ing of this association was held at Milford, New Hampshire, 

 in October, and at this conference each State organization 

 was urged to take action in line of the foregoing plan. This 

 subject should be brought before this meeting for your con- 

 sideration. 



At the \\'orcester meeting the delegates were handsomely 

 entertained by the Worcester County Horticultural Society, 

 one of the oldest and most enthusiastic Horticultural societies 

 in the country. 



In November last, your President, as representing the 

 Connecticut Pomological Society, was invited by His Excel- 

 lency, Governor Rollin S. Woodruff, to attend as a delegate 

 the Second Annual Conference of Governors of the New Eng- 

 land States, which conference has under consideration the 

 making of uniform laws on matters of common interest to the 

 several States. Committees were appointed to draft laws on 

 various subjects, to be presented to the General Assemblies 

 for their individual action. 



In closing, just a word about the Country Life Commis- 

 sion recently appointed by the President of the United States. 

 The members of this commission are intelligent, broad-minded 



