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see the necessity of bringing his organization to the front and strength- 

 ening it — yet we have accomplished a great deal that is desirable. 

 I hope every member will go back home and impress upon the 

 vegetable growers the necessity of supporting the organization. I 

 will call for the report of the Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 



MEiyfBERSHlP 



Mr. Work: Perhaps the members of the society would be inter- 

 ested in a statement as to our membership progress. At the be- 

 ginning of last year's meeting, which was at the close of the first year 

 of our existence, our membership numbered sixty-two. During last 

 year's meeting we secured twenty-three new members. At the 

 beginning of the present meeting, the number had risen to one 

 hundred three, but of that number some fourteen had failed to pay 

 up. We are pursuing the policy of dropping all names of members 

 whose fees have lapsed. That means that fourteen out of sixty-two 

 members failed to pay their dues for the second year. During this 

 meeting so far we have taken twenty-two new names. As ]\Ir. White 

 says, our numbers are not running into the hundreds very fast, but 

 we are making progress because our members are well distributed. 

 We have members all the way from Chautauqua to Suffolk — a 

 goodly distribution throughout the state. 



EXHIBITS 



As to the different lines of work that have been carried forward 

 during the year through the Secretary's office, the first one I will 

 mention is the exhibition work, and I hope you will, as we mention 

 these things, consider them carefully, make up your minds as to 

 whether they are worth while or not, as to whether we are carrying 

 them forward in the best possible way, and make yourselves heard. 



We made exhibits this last year at Rochester in connection with 

 the Vegetable Growers' Association of America at their annual 

 meeting in September. We made a second exhibit at Syracuse at 

 the State Fair. These displays were planned to show as wide a 

 range of marketing methods and of packages for marketing as pos- 

 sible. We had shipments from a great many different sources. We 

 were not quite satisfied with results at Syracuse. We did not have 



