Wednesday Afternoon, February 12 

 BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS 



President White: Please come to order. The last year has 

 certainly been gratifying in some respects. While we haven't in- 

 creased our membership materially, yet we can see that the work 

 of the organization is progressing, particularly so far as the interest 

 of vegetable growers is concerned in connection with the College. 

 At the time we organized two years ago. Dean Bailey made the 

 statement that if the vegetable growers of the state wanted to be 

 recognized as an industry the same as the other interests, we must 

 organize and press our wants home, so that they would be understood. 

 That, I suppose, really meant that there was a suggestion from him 

 that we could have the things to which we were entitled as coming 

 from the College of Agriculture, provided the demand was made by 

 an organized institution, representing the vegetable interests. I 

 can say the College of Agriculture has met us half way. They have 

 assisted in extension work as far as the funds which were available 

 could be used, though not so much as some, because the fruit growing 

 interests are older, and there is much more demand from the field 

 on the part of the fruit growers and other interests. We have pro- 

 gressed so far that the vegetable growing interests have almost 

 reached the same stage as other interests. We have taken active 

 part through cur legislative committee, and in one or two instances 

 I myself have taken part, in trying to bring about legislation in co- 

 operation with other interests for the benefit not only of the vege- 

 table growing interests, but also of the fruit growing interests. 

 There are bills now before the Legislature which are intended to aid 

 us in co-operation, and also a bill for the building of greenhouses for 

 experimental work for our vegetable interests where they are in the 

 greenhouse line. We are being recognized by other organizations 

 of similar character. The State Fruit Growers' Association, the 

 Horticultural Society, the State Agricultural Society, and other 

 organizations have been very courteous to us, recognizing the vege- 

 table growing interests through our organization. Along that line, 

 we have met with gratifying success. As I say, I feel on the whole 

 that, while our membership hasn't grown as it should grow — the 

 average vegetable grower doesn't seem to rise to the situation and 



