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country. We find ourselves dazed at the tremendous bulk of this 

 business. Orchards small and commercial are constantly multiplying. 

 Fruit growers are organizing to co-operate in the business of selling. 

 Gathering and packing must be scientifically as also artistically done. 

 All divisions of the industry demand system, conservatism, knowledge 

 and experience and still the plantings, the crops increase so that 

 even now the railroad and refrigerator car companies are pushed to 

 extremities to supply the cars to carry to market the immense quan- 

 tities of fruit products. 



"What a field of research and promise is open before us !" said 

 Marshal P. Wilder. "What a vast enterprise to fill our ever-expanding 

 area with fruits suited to our various climes ! What a noble and 

 benevolent work, to furnish the luscious fruits of earth for future 

 generations !" If after thirty years of organization President Wilder 

 could express wonder at the great advances made, at the opportunities 

 and resources before us, how much more can we, and the end not yet 

 in sight. Our work is of great magnitude, embracing an entire con- 

 tinent, opening up to us new resources and demands, and calling for 

 constant and untiring energy and enterprise. 



"We have made great advances during the thirty-one years of our 

 history, and experience from the best sources is flowing in to us every 

 day. The spirit of investigation is now thoroughly alive, and we have 

 opportunities for improvement such as have never been afforded to 

 any other Pomological Association on the globe. Our resources are 

 abundant and so kindly does Nature co-operate with us under the be- 

 nign influence of man, that he can mould her almost to his will, and 

 make of the rough and acrid wilding a most beautiful and delicious 

 fruit, and thus go on producing indefinitely as fine varieties as we 

 have ever seen. When we review what has already been accomplished 

 in a country so varied in soil and climate, who 'can set the bounds to 

 our progress?" 



LESSON FROM THE CANALS OF MARS. 



Thirty years ago an Italian astronomer noticed what appeared to 

 be canals on Mars. This discovery has been verified by an American, 

 Percival Lowell. The lesson to us is unity. The canal system covers 

 the planet reaching from each polar sea to the equator. They are 

 constructed on geometrical lines by skilled engineering. Without them 

 Mars would be an arid desert, and all life would perish, but as it is, 

 each spring sends the water to irrigate the whole planet and great 

 circles and bands of vegetation come to life. What a centralization 

 of effort is revealed here ! What a unity of interest binding that globe ! 



There is evidence of thorough and sympathetic organization of all 

 the people in labor and love for a work that covers the entire planet. 

 Here is an ideal for us (for them achieved) to strive towards and be- 

 lieve in. Our efforts should be (and are becoming more and more) 

 united in study, in labor, and in recognition of the human brotherhood 

 on this planet, earth, of the common needs and aims of men. We 

 must join forces, every state with every state, every nation with every 



