PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 



OF THE 



FRUIT GROWERS ASSOCIATION 



OF 



ADAMS COUNTY, PA. 



The Eighth Annual Convention was called to order by the 

 President, Robert M. Eldon, at 2:00 p. m., Wednesday, December 

 18, 1912, in Fruit Growers' Hall, Bendersville, Pa, 



The convention was opened with prayer by the Rev. D. T. 

 Koser. 



Following a few well chosen words of welcome by the Presi- 

 dent, the program was proceeded with as follows : 



PEACHES. 



Prof. F. N. Fagan, Ass't Professor of Horticulture, Pennsylvania 



State College. 



I wish to sound a warning note, not that I believe it myself, but 

 the press and public at large are inclined to believe it — that is that 

 there is, or rather might be an over production of apples. We read 

 nearly every day of some large planting of this fruit and the talk 

 is that when all their young trees come into bearing, the ones just 

 planted and the ones that have been planted within the past five or 

 ten years, that there will not be enough people in the United States 

 to use the fruit. That may hold good if people believe their own 

 township is the whole United States, but the facts are that many 

 families of ordinary means, in our large cities, cannot afford apples 

 at the prices they must pay each year to get them. So please under- 

 stand that I do not take much stock in the over production idea of 

 the apple. But I do know there is, on an average, an under pro- 



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