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The company then rose and drank to the following- 



Toast 



To THE Connecticut Pomological Society on the Occasion of the 



Annual Banquet, 18th Annual Meeting, 1909. 



(Composed by Mrs. H. L. Crandall, Farmingtoii, Conn.) 



Here's health to our pride, who is just 18 — 



The finest and fairest that ever was seen. 



We crown her with fruits and flowers untold, 



For she's hearty and Hale and she's worth all our Gold; 



Let's fill up our glasses and wish her "God Speed" 



And in years yet to come, we will follow her lead. 



As Air. Powell of the New'England Homestead was leav- 

 ing the banquet hall. Toastmaster Hale invited him to sa)'- 

 a few words. 



Mr. Edwin C. Powell: I have but fifteen minutes in 

 which to make an address and catch my train, and I assure 

 you the address will be brief. The matter has been referred 

 to by many that this was the first banquet of its kind they had 

 ever attended. I recall only one in my experience, — that was 

 way back in 1890, I think, when I was a student at Cornell — 

 that was before Professor Craig's time — when we arranged a 

 big spread, serving only what was produced on the farm of 

 Cornell University. We had fully as great a variety as }OU 

 have here to-night. It was a very entertaining experience, 

 for one never knew what was going to be the next course. 

 I congratulate this Society upon its flourishing condition and 

 upon the excellence of the banquet. 



Toastmaster Hale : With the development oi a better 

 life in the country, our trolley car lines and the telephone, 

 better roads and the autos, and the stimulus that has come in- 

 to rural life by the work of this Society and others, there is 

 a steady drift from the city to the country and an increasing- 

 intermingling of city and country people that is doing us good. 

 One of the good ladies who has in a measure left town and 

 city life for that of the country, and who, with her husband, 

 is developing rural life into more beauty and wholesomeness, 



