Now we will i;() (<> llic l»;ini :iii<l i^d onr horse and i^o back lo 

 the station at l*axiiios. (lood iiigliL (Applause). 



DK. MIOKLEnOROtKHl : Will you ju'imil a questioji? 



THE CHAIRMAN: We will. 



DR. MICKLEBOROUGII : I would like |o ask the rrolessoi- 

 if the blight has appeared in the Irish Valley? 



THE CHAIRMAN : If you do uot mind withhohliug jhat ques- 

 tion for just a minute, I want to make an announcement, and 

 then we are going to throw the doors open to discussion. At 

 the afternoon session yon directed the Chairman to appoint a 

 Committee on Resolutions, this committee to include the Chair- 

 man of the Conference. The Chairman requested that persons 

 attending the Conference should offer suggestions as to who 

 should be included on this committee. He did not receive as 

 many suggestions as he would like to have had, but he did receive 

 a good many, and every person who Avas suggested has beeli 

 appointed. ' 



The committee as made up, is as follows: 



Ex-olficio, Raymond A. Pearson, Chairman of the Conference. 



Maine, Charles E. Lewis. 



New Hampshire, Philip W. ^yres. 



JNlassachusetts, F. W. Rane. 



Rhode Island, Jesse I>. Mowry. 



Connecticut, (Jeorge P. Clinton. 



New York, (r. G. AtAVOod, 



H. P. Marshall, 



George L. Barrus. 



New Jersey, Melville T. Cook. 



Pennsylvania, I. C. Williams, 



Harold Peirce, 



^^^ T. creasy, 



Henry S. Drinker. 



Delaware, Wesley AVebb. 



Maryland, J. B. S. Norton, 



William ]McCulloli Brown. 

 Virginia, George A. Kerr, 



George B. Keezell. 



