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whose efforts a bill was passed by the last Legislature appropriating 

 112,000 for the maintenance of an Agricultural Department at State 

 College, and another bill giving $100,000 for the erection of a dairy 

 building and apparatus, including a proviso, obligating the next Leg- 

 islature to appropriate §^150,000 for its completion. This bill passed 

 both Houses without a dissenting voice and shows what can be ac- 

 complished for our farming interest by united effort. 



The Chair called attention to the excellent work being done by the 

 Forestry Department of the State, and commended the suggestion 

 recently made bv ForestrA' Commissioner Kothrock, that the De- 

 partment be permitted to sell forest tree seedlings to such citizens 

 of rennsyh'auia as would desire to plant them. 



The following letter from the Secretary of the American Pomolo- 

 gical Society was read by the Secretary: 



"Mr. Enos B. Engle, Waynesboro, Pa.: 



"My Dear Sir: Let me offer you, and through you, the members of 

 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, greeting on behalf of the 

 Executive of the American Pomological Society. Let me wash you, 

 also, a successful and profitable meeting. Let me also ask you to 

 draw the attention of the members of the Pennsylvania Horticul- 

 tural Society to some of the imrposes and functions of the American 

 Pomological Society'. It stands for the improvement of horticul- 

 tural practice; for the classifying of the principles underlying the 

 practice; for the development of systematic pomology, which in- 

 cludes descriptions and nomenclature; and, finally, for the eleva- 

 tion of horticultural ideals. 



"All these features are combined in the report of the proceedings 

 of the meeting of the Society recently held in Boston and now in 

 press. The code of nomenclature adopted by the Society will un- 

 doubtedly be accei)ted as the authority on such matters by the fruit 

 growers of the United States and Canada. For these and many 

 other reasons, the report is unusually valuable. A larger edition 

 than usual is being printed to meet the expected demand. Should 

 members of your Society wish to secure the report and at the same 

 time membership in the international society, they can do so by re- 

 mitting the biennial membership fee of two dollars (|2) to the treas- 

 urer. Professor L. K. Taft, Agricultural College P. O., Mich., or to 

 the undersigned. 



"Thanking you for your consideration in bringing this matter be- 

 fore your members, and hoping that your conference will amply 

 realize the ideals of Ponnsyl^niiia horticultural councils, believe me 



"Amours faithfully, 



"JOHN CRAIG." 

 "Ithaca, N. Y., January 13, 1904. 



