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Mr. Summers: In general I am in favor of affiliation where possible, 

 but it seems as though all the affiliation necessary in the case of these 

 societies is merely to avoid conflict. The Association of Horticultural 

 Inspectors cannot combine with this Association because its members 

 are not made by the election of the association, and I do not see any 

 need of affiliation. 



Mr. J. B. Smith: There is one other point to be taken into consider- 

 ation in this connection: Matters which were of particular interest to 

 the Horticultural Inspectors were brought into our meeting and there 

 was so much discussion that it took up too much time. Now, that will 

 bring all that back into the Association again, and I do not know as we 

 want it here at the present time. 



President Sanderson: I might suggest, and I suppose that is the 

 reason this matter was brought up at this time, that if there are some 

 who favor this idea, a committee might consider this and take it up at 

 the last session. I do not understand that it would affect our program 

 at all. 



Mr. Howard: It seems to me we are wasting valuable time. This 

 matter can be taken up later. 



President Sanderson: Is there any further business? I have ap- 

 pointed the following committees : 



Resolutions: Messrs. Headlee, Sanders and Symons. 



Nominations: Messrs. Osborn, Bruner and Gossard. 



Memorial Resolutions: Messrs. Osborn and Davis. 



Auditing: Messrs. O'Kane and Cotton. 



Affiliation of Horticultural Inspectors: Messrs. Symons, Headlee and J. B. Smith. 



President Sanderson announced that as Messrs. Quaintance and 

 Forbes of the Membership Committee were not present at the meet- 

 ing, he would appoint Messrs. J. B. Smith and Burgess to serve in 

 their places. 



In accordance with a previous arrangement the final business of the 

 meeting was transacted at the session Wednesday afternoon, December 

 29. 



President Sanderson: The first thing on the program is a report 

 of the Committee on Legislation by Professor Symons. 



Mr. Symons: I have no formal report to make, but will say that 

 during the past year the committee has aimed to do everything in its 

 power to forward the passage of the so-called Simmons bill, which has 

 been before Congress. We were invited to appear before the Agri- 

 cultural Committee last January and present our claims as to the 

 worthiness of this bill. It seemed that the orchardists of West Virginia 

 and other places had previously taken the matter up with the Secretary 

 of Agriculture, and were also anxious to be heard, and it appeared that 



