62 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ture is asked to give $10,000 or $20,000 for the military, and 

 we tell them to deduct that much and give it to us. So far 

 as the Pomological Society and the New England Fruit Show 

 is concerned, we want to make sure the representatives of 

 this association are in the front every time. (Applause). 



President Rogers: If there is no objection to this 

 report, it will stand approved. 



Mr. Hale: If you want to object, object now, but don't 

 object over at the Capitol. (Laughter). 



President Rogers : There is one thing I would like to 

 call to your attention, we are paying in our own cities more 

 for cold storage, or equally as much, as it costs us to ship 

 apples to Boston and then put them in storage. That is not 

 right, and there is just one point to be remembered there. 



The next on our program is an address, illustrated, on 

 "Summer Spraying, Some Results with the Lime-sulphur 

 Mixtures," by Prof. H. H. Whetzel, of Ithaca, N. Y., of the 

 New York State College of Agriculture. I have the pleas- 

 ure of introducing to you Prof. Whetzel. (Applause). 



Summer Spraying — Some Results with the Lime- 

 Sulphur Mixtures. 



By Prof. H. H. Whetzel, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Mr. Cliainiiaii, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I am sure that it is a great pleasure to be in Connecticut 

 to-day, to see all of your faces, and especially to see some 

 of the men of the Connecticut Station, whose faces I have 

 not seen for some time. I shall not try to tell you all of the 

 things that we have tried to do in New York, but to give you 

 a few suggestions in regard to the work we have been doing 

 with lime-sulphur as a summer spray. 



Down at the Rochester meeting of the New York 

 State Fruit Growers' Association some two or three w^eeks 

 ago, we had a large gathering of this sort, and in connection 



