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for co-operation is presented we shall be able to accept it. It 

 is a matter that cannot be forced upon us. I believe it is an 

 •excellent thing. 



Secretary Miles : One of our members has suggested 

 that we have a publicity committee. I think it would be well 

 to create such a committee this year, and let this' question of 

 the cooperative selling be left in their hands. 



Question No. 4: The proposed New England Apple 

 Show at Boston, in 1909 : What is it expected to accomplish ? 



Mr. Wilfrid Wheeler of Concord, Mass., was invited 

 to address the meeting on this subject. 



The Proposed New England Fruit Show. 



Mr. Wheeler: If I could contrast the East with the 

 West in the matter of apple growing. I should say New En- 

 gland is pessimistic and the West is optimistic. In order to 

 bring the matter of the possibilities and opportunities for 

 apple growing a little more closely before the people of New 

 England, the governors of the New England States met in 

 Boston last fall and went over the matter of some uniform 

 legislation in regard to the different matters pertaining to 

 New England's interests touching apples and the orchard 

 industry. As a result of that conference the different secre- 

 taries of the boards of agriculture and the State entomolo- 

 gists of New England gathered in Boston, and after suggest- 

 ing various uniform laws that might be applied throughout 

 New England, they suggested we hold a big apple or fruit 

 show. That show to be in Boston this coming fall, at the 

 rooms of the Massachusetts Horticultural society, who have 

 •given up their building for the purpose; thinking it would 

 bring together in Boston all the fruit from the different New 

 England States. There is needed concerted action among 

 the States in order to make this show a success. So the 

 •committee has asked that every State pomological, horticul- 

 tural, or any society interested, send a delegate this coming 

 month to a meeting to be held in Boston, to meet the general 

 committee and in that way to get together and plan for the 



