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Mr. Tuttle: Those in favor of holding our next annual meet- 

 ing here at Farmers' Week next winter, manifest it by saying, "Aye." 

 (Carried unanimously.) 



MEETING AT ALBANY 



Mr. Tuttle: There is another matter which was discussed 

 last evening. That is the question of holding a meeting in Albany 

 next winter in connection with the annual meeting of the State 

 Agricultural Society. At the meeting in Albany last January, it 

 was pretty clearly determined that it would be advisable to hold a 

 sort of an agricultural week in Albany next winter, two days of which 

 should be devoted to the meetings of the State Agricultural Society, 

 perhaps one day to the Breeders' Association, another day to the 

 Fruit Growers' iVssociation, and another day to any other body of 

 farmers that wanted to have a sort of convention. It was suggested 

 and discussed last evening that we might have a one day session of 

 the Vegetable Growers' Association in Albany during that week. 

 The opportunity would be afforded to go to Albany and spend one 

 week and take in discussions of four or five different organizations 

 in which we are all more or less interested. If we could go to Albany 

 with a certainty that we were going to be able to attend the New 

 York State Agricultural Society meeting for two days — and that 

 meeting is always a very rich meeting — I believe that it would result 

 in a very large attendance at those meetings all around, and I think 

 it would be wise to have a motion made here that the Vegetable 

 Growers' Association of the state endeavor to arrange to have a one- 

 day session of the Vegetable Growers' Association and its affiliated 

 bodies and those interested at Albany during the week of the meeting 

 of the State Agricultural Society. I am going to make that motion 

 myself, and let Mr. White assume the chair. (Carried.) 



President White: I will express my appreciation of the faith 

 that you apparently have in my willingness to do the work for you, 

 but appreciating the responsibilities and the work to be done I feel 

 differently about it. It is with a great deal of reluctance that I 

 consented to take the position for another year. I am wondering 

 what will happen when I get home. My people feel that I am 

 giving a whole lot of time to public work, and it is a fact that I have 

 had to sacrifice my own interests quite considerably in the last couple 

 of years. I feel this way, however, that sooner or later we will see 

 some results from our organization work which will make me feel 



