No. 6. DErARTMENT OF AGRICTILTrTRE. 717 



AN ACT. 



Making an appniprialion to The Pennsylvania State College for the investiga- 

 tion of diseases and insects injurious to the grape and other fruits and arrest- 

 ing the spread of, and finding remedies for the same. 



Section 1. Be, it enacted^ etc. That the sum of |0,()0().0O, or so 

 much thereof as may be nccessaiy, be and the same is liereby speci- 

 tically appropriated to the trustees of the Pennsylvania State Col- 

 lege for the two fiscal years beginning on the first day of June, one 

 thousand nine hundred and three, the same to be expended by the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station of said College for investigating, 

 arresting the spread of, and finding remedies for diseases and in- 

 sects injurious to fruits, particularly the grape. 



Section 2. That an amount not exceeding five per centum of the 

 sum appropriated by this act, may be used by the said Experiment 

 Station for publishing and printing the results of the experiments 

 herein pro\ided for in the shape of bulletins, one copy of each of 

 \vhich shall be sent to every newspaper published in the State, and 

 to such individuals as may request the same, so far as the means of 

 the Station may permit, and that the results of the said experiments, 

 tog-ether with an itemized financial statement, shall be published in 

 the annual report of the said Station to the Governor of the Com- 

 monwealth, y 



Section 3. That said api)ropriation be paid in accordance with the 

 provisions of an act of Assembly, approved March fifteen, one thou- 

 sand eight hundred and ninety-nine. 



After some discussion the matter was referred to the Committee 

 on Legislation and Allied Organizations. Mr. Hiester, chairman of 

 committee, subsequently offered the following resolutions which 

 were adopted: 



"Resolved, That the Pennsylvania State Horticultural Association does heart- 

 ily endorse and approve the action taken by the Allied Agricultural Organiza- 

 tions at the meeting held January 21, 1902, and hereby pledges the support of its 

 members to the carrying out of the same, and instructs its legislative com- 

 mittee to co-operate with the corresponding committee of the Allied Organiza- 

 tions to that end. 



"Resolved, That we approve Senate bill, entitled, An act making an appro- 

 priation to the State College for the investigation of diseases and insects injurious 

 CO the grape and other fruits and arresting- the spread of and finding remedies 

 for the same. 



"Resolved, That the Pennsylvania State Horticultural Association fully 

 appreciates the efforts made by Secretary of Agriculture, John Hamilton, for 

 the advancement of the fruit industry in this State, and earnestly urges a 

 continuance of the good work by him or his successor in office, and especially 

 recommends a still more thorough and systematic fruit investigation and report, 

 to the end that the many thousand acres of excellent fruit land now unculti- 

 vated and unproductive may be speedily utilized, thus adding to the material 

 wealth of the State and the prosperity and happiness of its citizens. 



"Resolved, That the Pennsylvania Horticultural Association favors the es- 



