EIUIlTJiJiNTH AXNUAL MEETING. loi 



Twenty vcars ago the exports did not exceed probably one 

 million dollars' worth. 



People are coming here who will eat our good fruit. 

 The foreign countries tell me that when these good red Raid- 

 wins come over the other side and can be bought at a fair 

 price, the poor will eat them in large quantities. There is 

 absolutely no product that can be taken into the foreign coun- 

 tries that w'ill be so thoroughly in demand as the apple. Here 

 is your further opportunity. Do you realize the wealth of 

 the opportunity that is held out to you and your children, and 

 all those who follow you, if you only plant apple orchards 

 and grow the fruit right and send it across the water? It 

 never will be done, my friends, by simply talking about. I 

 think our colleges, our experiment stations, our agricultural 

 societies to a large extent, and our pomological societies and 

 all other forms of education, have been barking up the wrong 

 tree. They have all gone at this too much on the theory of 

 the almight}- dollar. I think they have said, "You must 

 study this and do this simply because there is a dollar in it.'" 

 If we could have more of the spirit of the single purpose of 

 reaching down to the best there is in the hearts of men in 

 our agricultural education, we would succeed better. 



J\ly theory is, if we are going to succeed as fruit grow- 

 ers, we must give up this eternal banking of our hopes simpl}- 

 upon the making of a dollar on our fruit. 



ToASTMASTER Hali-:: The Connecticut Agricultural Col- 

 lege has always been backed up by this Society, and it has 

 always helped us. The president of that institution is with 

 us to-night. He is a young man for a College president, but 

 still he is a worthy and reliable one. I introduce to you 

 Professor C. L. Beach. 



President Beacji : It was my good fortune to have 

 been born in the West, but it was my greater good fortune 

 to have moved to the East in my early days and be adopted 

 by the people of Connecticut. My earliest recollection of 

 my farm home is the apple orchard. I remember the delic- 

 ious harvest apples that ripened about the first of August. 



