TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING. 25 



Whereas, the members of this Society and its friends 

 are convinced that such impression is not correct, and have 

 been engaged in a serious effort to disprove it, and to main- 

 tain the agricultural reputation of the state, and 



ll'liereas. no other one thing- is of such importance in 

 this work as a soil survey made under the authority of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, now therefore be it 



Resolved, by the Connecticut Pomological Society, as- 

 sembled in its twentieth annual meeting, that Hon. James Wil- 

 son, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, be, and 

 he hereby is, urg-ently requested to have prepared and pub- 

 lished a soil survey of the whole of the state of Connecti- 

 cut as rapidly as the work can be done, so that the results 

 can be published within one year, and be it further 



Resolved, that our Senators and Representatives in Con- 

 gress are requested to do all in their power to impress upon 

 the Secretary of Agriculture the importance of this work to 

 the residents of this state, and to urge upon him its imme- 

 diate prosecution and completion, and be it further 



Resolved, that one member of the Publicity Committee 

 be authorized to proceed to Washington at an earlv date, to 

 present these resolutions to the proper parties and to use his 

 best endeavors to have the work begun. 



Your Committee would further call the attention of the 

 Society to the fact that the resolution under which it was 

 originally appointed, provided for work in the direction of 

 cooperative selling and buying. In view of the importance of 

 the work along these lines now being done by other similar 

 associations, your committee believes that the time is ripe for 

 this Society to begin. On the other hand, the amount of 

 work now being done by the members of this committee is not 

 small, and if anything is to be added to their labors, they 

 W'Ould suggest that the size of the committee be increased 1>\' 

 one member. The committee makes no recommendation as 

 to taking up this work, but lio])es that the matter will be dis- 

 cussed by the meml)ers, in whose hands its success must even- 

 tuallv rest. 



