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\Miile we desire first of all to grow apples for the box trade and the 

 high class barrel trade, there will always be a quantity larger or 

 smaller moving toward the cannery and dry house, and surely in 

 the future when the Adams county full crop year coincides with 

 the outside full crop, a great mass of fruit will be directed to them. 

 AA'e have but one cannery and two evaporators under one manage- 

 ment within a radius of several miles. There should be others so 

 that we might profit by reasonable competition. I should like to see 

 a co-operative canning and evaporating plant owned and operated 

 by the members of this organization. I am not alone in thinking 

 that the price of drops and culls is too low. Xew York growers get 

 much better prices. Evaporators are much more plentiful there or 

 growers dry their own fruit. 



Let us make a concerted efi'ort to have the Adams County Ex- 

 hibit better than anv previous Adams County Exhibit, and better 

 than any other county exhibit. Partly because we want to keep the 

 cup oft'ered as a prize for best exhibits, but principally because the 

 habit of winning is a good habit to cultivate, when the accomplish- 

 ment of the object striven for, does not injure the other fellow in 

 the race. Our sister counties have good individual growers who 

 are certain to haAC good fruit on exhibition, but not having been 

 organized so long as have the Adams county growers, they do not 

 pull together as perhaps we do. It takes not only care in grow- 

 ing fine fruit but continued efir'ort in following it through all the 

 stages of its course from picking to judging. Ever since our organ- 

 ization began to compete as a county exhibitor it has always had 

 a number of its members on hand to take advantage of the choice 

 of space, and to see that the fruit is properly selected and displayed. 



The practice of making an exhibit at otu* own convention is 

 the best kind of training in preparation for the second and more 

 elaborate display at the State meeting. 



Join the State Society and attend its sessions. Help to make it 

 the best in the country. It should have two thousand members and 

 two hundred or more of them should come from the first fruit pro- 

 ducing county. 



Join the Adams County Association and persuade others to do 

 the same thing. Attendance at its sessions will help you to under- 

 stand your troubles which is half way to mastery over them. You 

 cannot expect to remember all that you hear here. Join and get the 

 record, the Proceedings. 



