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It was from here^ that Prof. Jones of the Wisconsin State Exper. Station, 
Madison, Wis., selected his strain of disease-resistance cabbage 
Co-operative Fruit Exchange, Marlboro, Mass.; the Oregon Agricultural 
College; the Bri(lgej)ort Vegetable Growers’ Ass’n; the Norwich V'ege- 
table Growers’ Ass’n; the Boston Market Growers’ Ass’n; the Mass. 
Vegetable Growers’ Ass’n; the New York Vegetable Growers’ 
Ass’n; the Newcastle (Pa.) Vegetable Growers’ Ass’n; the West- 
look Farm in Pennsylvania (K. P. Imvett, owner); the Growers’ Ass’n 
of St. Paul, Minn.; the Munroe Market Gardeners’ Ass’n of Munroe 
County, N. Y.; the John H. Fowler Co. of Westfield, Mass.; and others 
too numerous to name. 
Detroit, Mich., was chosen as the next place for the convention, and 
the following officers w'ere elected : President, Howard W. Selby, Provi- 
dence, R. I.; secretary, Samuel W. Severance, Inter-Southern Bldg., 
Louisville, Ky. ; treasurer, Eugene Davis, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
During the convention the program covering the selling, cultivating, 
marketing and general care of vegetables was discussed. Drying and 
dehydrating of eertain vegetables was very thoroughly gone into. 
The annual banquet was 'held at the Hotel Kimball in Springfield 
where about four hundred members sat down to a unique menu con- 
sisting entirely of vegetables. An automobile tour in which about three 
hundred and forty members took part was enjoyed throughout parts 
of western Massachusetts, various visits being made, among them to 
the Massachusetts Agricultural College Ground. 
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