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or three years we have got to resort to those methods. 

 After that, if we know of somebody that has raised some 

 turkeys without allowing them to mix up with old turkeys we 

 can exchange with them, but we want to be sure of our 

 ground, so that we shall not introduce the trouble again 

 from old infected birds. We want to exercise a quarantine 

 over the disease, and practice disinfection by keeping the 

 young birds away from the infected flocks, and from the 

 grounds that they have run over. It may be that one year 

 will stamp it out. I am pretty sure that two years will do it. 

 We want to try some practical experiments in regard to it 

 in Rhode Island at the station, but we have not the land to 

 do it. I think the State will give it to us by-and-by, and then 

 we shall be able to try it on a practical scale. 



The President. The time has arrived for adjournment. 



A Member. Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen: 

 I suppose you all know of the sad death of one of the dele- 

 gates to our Convention, Mr. Thompson of East Haven, and 

 it seems to me that it would be fitting that we should express 

 to the family of Mr. Thompson and the members of Foxon 

 Grange our sincere sympathy in their bereavement, and I 

 would, therefore, present the following resolution for your 

 adoption: 



Resolved, That the sympathy of this assembly be extended 

 to the family of Henry Thompson of East Haven, Visiting 

 Delegate to this Convention from Foxon Grange, in their 

 sudden bereavement by the removal of our brother. They, 

 through the inscrutable wisdom of an overruling Providence, 

 have lost a devoted husband and a fond father, and we a 

 worthy patron. 



Resolution duly seconded and unanimously passed. 



Secretary Brown. Mr. President, I would like to be- 

 speak for Dr. Atwater and Dr. Conn a prompt attendance 

 this afternoon. We have not placed Dr. Atwater and Dr. 

 Conn at the close of this program from choice. It was im- 



