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with it we addressecl letters to Professor J. B. Smith. Xew Jer- 

 sey, Professor Lintner, New York, and they agree that there is 

 no probabihty of its occurrence unless it finds a limited area 

 favorable to its multiplication along the Soutliern coast. The 

 specimens shown of this scale we have from New Jersey, sent us 

 through the kindness of Prof. J. B. Smith. 



LEGISLATION. 



A great deal of interest is at present awakened in the matter 

 of suitable legislation against the introduction and spread of 

 injurious insects and fungi. 



Many of the States have already passed laws. 



The matter is to come up for discussion and action before 

 the National Fruit Growers' Convention that meets at Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, in March and before a called National Convention 

 for this purpose which meets in Washington. March 5, 1897. 



The United States Department of Agriculture is doing what it 

 can in the matter. 



Resolution — ^As it is a subject in which IMaine should be inter- 

 ested on her own behalf as well as for the general goo'cl of the 

 country, we move that delegates be appointed to each of the 

 above conventions with instructions to aid so far as possible in 

 the passage of suitable laws against the introduction and spread 

 of injurious insects and fungi. 



DISCUSSION. 



Athertox — When will be the time to spray? 



A. It will be early in June about the time the leaves begin 

 to come out; when you see the little white specks running over 

 the limbs that will be the time to spray. 



O. Is the white scale you speak of a hard or a soft scale? 



A. A hard scale. If any of you are troubled with injurious 

 insects and want to know the names of them you have the priv- 

 ilege of sending them to the Experiment Station at Orono. 



President — I see we have something here on the platform 

 that look like what we call toadstools or Mushrooms, and I will 

 ask our secretary to tell us something about them. 



Mr. Knowlton — I don't know very much about mushrooms 

 only that some of them are very good to eat, but Mr. Shaw is 



