10 THE CONNECTICUT P0M0L0G1CAL SOCIETY. 



"In compliance with the request of the Pomological 

 Society for cooperation and help in promoting successful 

 fruit growing in the state, with special reference to or- 

 chard interests, the Connecticut Agricultural College, and 

 the Agricultural Stations offer the following suggestions. 

 Aside from experimental work on matters which are not 

 at present full}' determined, a chief need is to spread what 

 knowledge is now to be had on the best methods of reno- 

 vating old orchards, on the shaping of trees in young 

 orchards, on the proper management of spraying opera- 

 tions and other means of combatting orchard pests and 

 unfavorable climatic conditions, as well as the tillage and 

 fertilizing of fruit trees. To spread this knowledge there 

 is needed throughout the state instruction in improved 

 orchard methods, namely, educational, or demonstration 

 work by field meetings, farm institutes and other means. 

 We agreed that such educational work is distinctly the 

 work of the Agricultural College rather than of the Sta- 

 tions, that its general management should be in the hands 

 of the College rather than with either or both of the 

 Stations, and that both the College and the Pomological 

 Society, associated in its general management, should 

 freely invite and receive the help of both Stations equally 

 as the time, means and qualifications of members of the 

 respective staffs of the two Stations may permit." 



The idea is that this work is rather educational in 

 character and should go to the institution whose purpose 

 is to teach rather than to the institution whose purpose 

 is to investigate. 



"The work of the Stations, on the other hand, in field 

 and laboratory, should be distinctively research work, 

 leaving the general direction of the educational or dem- 

 onstration work to the College and the various state agri- 

 cultural organizations, as may be arranged between 

 them." 



