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their work to impose the necessity of fumigation. The onlv thing 

 for them to do would be to permit each load of trees to stand under 

 shelter until the bark is dry. Standing over night should be suflQ- 

 cient for them to dry enough to fumigate in the morning. 



4. Fumigation demands the attention of a very careful and relia- 

 ble man during the "harvest" season when the nurserymen are 

 busiest, and to make such demand upon nurserymen must have most 

 serious justification. 



5. Some nurseries are not in the infested regions and do not 

 have San Jos6 Scale. It is a question if nurseries that are known 

 to be clean should be compelled to fumigate. On the other hand 

 scale has been spread on stock that was thought to be clean. This 

 is a common case of putting similar requirements on all persons 

 in order to permit no guilty one to escape. 



6. Some nurserymen do not want fumigation. They have as much 

 liberty to say that they do not want fumigation as the fruit grow- 

 ers have to say they want it done. Whether they have as much jus- 

 tice in this statement depends upon conditions. If a man thinks 

 he has no San Jos6 Scale and should not fumigate he may dissem- 

 inate it, but if he knows he has none, no good will be done by the fu- 

 migation, and yet when properly done no harm will come from it. 



On the whole, our observations, studies and experience lead us 

 to say that universal fumigation is the only safeguard for fruit 

 growers. 



.Adjourned. 



Afternoon Session. 



Before taking up the regular program, the following was offered 

 bv Prof. Watts. 



Resolved, That the Pennsylvania State Horticultural Association 

 hereby records its appreciation of the recognition accorded to the 

 agricultural and horticultural interests of the State by the last 

 Legislature in the appropriation of |100,000 to begin the erection 

 at the Pennsylvania State College of an agricultural building, with 

 the proviso that the total cost shall not exceed |250,000. 



Resolved, That we request and urge the coming Legislature to 

 provide for the immediate completion of the building by the appro- 

 priation of the remaining |150,000, in order that all branches of 

 agricultural education at the State College may be as well housed 

 as is the dairy work in the portion of the building now completed. 



Resolved, That this organization appreciates the work done for 

 agricultural education in the past under very unfavorable condi- 

 tions by the Pennsylvania State College and that it requests from 

 the next Legislature a liberal appropriation for the maintenance of 

 the various agricultural courses, in order that the equipment already 

 provided may be utilized to the fullest possible extent. 



Resolved, That in view of the importance of scientific investiga- 

 tion to the development of the horticultural interests of the State, 

 and of the fact that in the past scarcely any State aid has been 

 given to the Agricultural Experiment Station, the Horticultural 

 Association is heartily in favor of a liberal appropriation by the 

 State for the maintenance and enlargement of the current work of 

 the Station, particularly along the line of a study of the insect and 

 fungous enemies of the horticulturist. 



