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AMERICAN POMOEOGICAI, SOCIETY 
President Lupton: I wish to state that Mr. Goodman has just informed 
me that Mr. M. L. Dean, of Montana, the gentleman whose 1 name appears next 
on the program, was called away this morning to Baltimore, and will not he 
able to be with us this afternoon. I still fail to see Representative Lever 
in the house, and I presume that Congressional duties have detained him 
and we may possibly hear from him to-morrow. I also wish to state that 
Senator Hoke Smith, who is another one of the gentlemen who claims the 
fatherhood of the Market Bureau bill, will be with us to-morrow morning. 
He has been detained in Congress; but as I know of no difficulty to-morrow 
morning, I expect him to be with us and to tell us what his idea is of what 
the Bureau of Markets should be. 
I would like to ask President Goodman, of the American Pomological 
Society, if the Society has a committee on resolutions, to which such matters 
are referred. There is a resolution now up to the Chair that it seems to me 
ought to go to that committee on resolutions. I will not take the trouble 
to read it; because I believe that reference of it is the proper course to 
pursue, and with your permission I will just leave that resolution to the 
President of the American Pomological Society to be considered by the 
committee of that Society, it being a matter comprising the interests of the 
whole. 
So! far as the Eastern Fruit Growers’ Association is concerned this 
ends the program for this afternoon — unless President Goodman has some 
other matters that he wishes to lay before the body. 
Mr. Goodman: In justice to Mr. Dean and in explanation of his failure 
to be here, I would like to say that he was called by wire to 1 Baltimore to 
act as judge of some of the exhibits at the Maryland State Fair. We will 
try to get his name on the program and have his paper to-morrow if possible. 
THE MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION OF FRUIT.* 
W. W. Finley, Washington, D. C. 
Conditions of soil and climate make certain localities better adapted 
than others to the production of certain kinds of fruit. The demand for 
fruits is not restricted by geographical lines. If marketing should be con- 
fined to the immediate localities of production prices would not be sufficient- 
ly remunerative to encourage any considerable development of fruit-growing 
except in the neighborhood of large cities, and the people of each community 
would be restricted to the consumption of those kinds of fruits that could 
be grown in their localities. 
♦The death of Mr. Finley which occurred four days after the delivery 
of this address was a great shock to his many friends. He appeared to be 
in excellent health and spirit on this occasion and it was with a feeling of 
singular sadness that the members of the society learned of his sudden demise. 
