PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 



OF THE 



FRUIT GROWERS ASSOCIATION 



OF 



ADAMS COUNTY, PA. 



The Sixth Annual Convention was called to order by the Presi- 

 dent, Robt. M. Eldon, at 2:00 p. m., Wednesday, December 14, 

 1910, in Fruit Growers' Hall, Bendersville, Pa. 



The convention was opened with prayer by the Rev. B. P. S. 

 Busey. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Robt. AI. EldOxV. 



The problem of the Adams County Fruit Growers' Association 

 is to hold each year a better convention. We shall be pleased in- 

 deed to do this during this week. There is no expectation of fur- 

 nishing a program that shall be novel throughout or in large part, 

 even if that were desirable, but new tailors for new clothes, may 

 add interest to subjects which have been discussed more or less 

 regularly since the growing of fruit was begun and discussions 

 had. It will be, then, not so much the declarations of new methods 

 as the perfection of old ones by addition of elimination. We are 

 willing and anxious to hear the latest and best of everything from 

 the planting of raw land to the receipt of returns for fruit mar- 

 keted. 



Can planting be overdone, and especially will planting in the 

 East be overdone is a question which is frequently heard. Some 

 say that it is now too late to plant trees ; if they were now grown 

 and ready to bear, all well and good, but by the time the new- 

 planted ones are ready to bear in seven to eleven years the market 

 will be overstocked. We certainh^ think that the year IQOO was 

 a better year for planting than the year 1910. I^eing first on the 

 field is always a great advantage, but that there will be a good mar- 

 ket for the good crops of the 1910 planted trees wc also fulh- be- 



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