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greatly enhanced, and it could act as a sort of clearing-house 

 for all the members, and could furnish to you a summary of 

 its information in its reports at the annual meetings, or, upon 

 special private request, at any intermediate times. We, there- 

 fore, respectfully solicit the voluntary cooperation of all the 

 members in this benificent work, so that the information ob- 

 tained and imparted by this committee may grow increasingly 

 valuable to the fruit growers of the state. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



JOHN R. BARNES, 

 GEORGE W. SMITH, 

 HARVEY JEWELL. 



The President: If there is no objection, the report on 

 New Fruits will be accepted. 



Report on Markets and Transportation, J. Wirris Barnes, 

 chairman, is next on the list. 



Report of the Committee on Markets and Transportation. 



Mr. President and Members of the Conneeticut Poniological 

 Society : 

 As chairman of the Committee on Alarkets and Trans- 

 portation I was recently reminded by our Secretary that a 

 report from our committee was expected, and at first thought 

 it seemed as though there was little to be said, the actual 

 work done by the members of the committee for the fruit 

 growing interests of the state l^eing principally to negotiate 

 with those in charge of the railroad transportation, looking to 

 improvement of the freight service as related to handling 

 products of the orchards, and as pointed out by the experi- 

 ences of the season of one year ago. After various negotia- 

 tions, the committee met several of the heads of the diifer- 

 ent departments of the road at their office building in Xew 

 Haven, and crop prospects, along with the matter of our 

 need, was quite thoroughly gone over, and an earnest effort 



