Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Convention

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Convention: Held in Fruit Growers Hall, Benderswille, Pa., Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Dec. 16, 17, 18, 1908 Much interest has been shown by our members at the monthly meetings in the handling Of orchards, especially the young orchard, the discussion centering about tillage and cover crops. But as a special resume of the minutes Of these meetings is to be given by one Of our members as a'part Of' the convention program, I need not dwell on this item. Your chairman is especially pleased with the fruit exhibit. With its quality, which in his judgment is the best that has been seen at these conventions, and with the increasing number Of ex hibitors. There are a number of new names on plates Of very creditable fruit. We begin to feel that there is a possibility Of get ting the award for the best display by a county at the State Society's meeting. There are indications that other counties are awakening to the advantage of having the best fruit in the best order at these meetings, and it is certain that the others are not going to allow us to win by default. We must have the best fruit and I want to urge upon our members as individuals to help along with our display at Harrisburg. You can get no better advertising at any price. In intending to enter a competition Of this kind it seems to me that there is a definite course to follow. DO the work yourself. Don't trust to the help in this particular, and do not imagine that the fruit taken from your barrel or bin at exhibition time is going to be tagged with a best label. GO to the trees at picking time and get the apples that you have had your eye on all summer before the pick ing gang has had an Opportunity to maltreat them. Put them in your own private basket. Tote them personally from the orchard to a convenient place and see that they are carefully packed and forthwith sent to a responsible storage place. If you are going to exhibit fruit on plates don't use the modern ¿imsy apple box or the still more ¿imsy basket, but get a good and strong Old hay seed variety Of a box, one that the expressman can do his worst on. You are not going to sell them by the box anyway. And your turn to laugh will be last and best. If you carefully follow these simple directions, and had in the beginning the best fruit. The chair sees no reason for disappointment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.