396 BOARD OF AGEICULTUKE. 



Professor Troop: Since I gave my report yesterday, one man has 

 come to me and has stated that he is very sure he has the San Jose scale 

 in his orchard. He lives in a section of the State from which I have not 

 received information that the scale existed there. I am very glad to get 

 this information, of course, but he has been keeping quiet all this time 

 thinking he could manage it himself. That is wrong, entirely so. The 

 main object in appointing the State Entomologist was that he should look 

 after these things and destroy them, but I can not do that unless you help 

 me. When you think you have San Jose scale, or when you think your 

 neighbors have it in their orchards, let me know about it so that I can 

 hunt it up. If you keep this information from me, I can not do anything. 

 If any of you know, or think you know, that either yourselves or your 

 neighbors have this scale in your orchards, let me know at once and I will 

 try and run it down. I can not do it if you keep the thing hidden. 



Mr. Little: Is not a man liable for not reporting the scale? 



Professor Troop: No; he is liable if he does not apply the remedies 

 after he is notified. 



Mr. H. W. Henry: I desire to offer a resolution before we begin the 

 election of officers. I think this resolution will give us more hands to do 

 the work of the Society. 



I move that Article III of the Constitution be changed so as to read, 

 "Thirteen vice-presidents, or one from each Congressional District," and to 

 change all sections of the By-Laws so as to conform to the change of Arti- 

 cle III of the Constitution. 



The motion was seconded, 



Mr. Henry: I have the State reports of the Horticultural Societies of 

 every State west of the Ohio river, and every one of these States has a 

 vice-president in every Congi-essional District in the State, making a good 

 working force. Take Minnesota, for example. You would not say that 

 Minnesota was a good fruit growing State at all, and yet they have a so- 

 ciety there of 1,200 members, and they have a vice-president in every Con- 

 gressional District. 



Mr. Burton: That will be going back to an old provision of this Soci- 

 ety. I do not know why it was changed. 



Mr. Little: We thought it was not necessary to have so many vice- 

 presidents. 



Mr. Burton: That makes a very cumbrous machine for so small a 

 membership as we have. If w^e pay the expenses of the vice-presidents, as 

 we do now, when they attend our meetings, it will be a burden. I see 

 no necessity for making this change. 



