22 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Reports of Standing Committees. 



President Rogers: The next is the reports of standing 

 committees ; first we will call for the report of the Member- 

 ship Committee, Mr. J. H. Putnam, chairman. 



Mr. Putnam : Wr. President and Members : I have 

 no written report to make. The Secretary has already told 

 you that we have 717 members all paid up, and that is a gain 

 of 106 over last year. I want to say that this increased mem- 

 bership represents the hard work of our Secretarv. He is 

 entitled to a great deal of credit for what he has done. Per- 

 haps sometimes you feel that this membership business is be- 

 ing overdone, but at the same time if we are going to accom- 

 plish anything for the fruit interests of Connecticut we have 

 got to have a large membership. It seems to me that you 

 must understand that it is not the dollar that we are after 

 so much as it is your own salvation in the fruit business. If 

 this Society is worth anything to the fruit growers of Con- 

 necticut, it is worth a dollar to every man who grows fruit 

 in the state. It is not so mucli the value of the dollar as it is 

 the value of the Society to you, and by the use of your dollar 

 we can accomplish a great deal niiore than we can without 

 it. It is the enthusiasm, the power and influence which the 

 Society can have by a large membership that make it abso- 

 lutely necessary that we shoidd have a large membership. So 

 I hope that you will all feel that it is up to you to pass in 

 your dollar, and see to it that your friends aid in the work 

 of booming fruit growing in Connecticut, and booming this 

 association. 



President Rogers: The committee's report will be ac- 

 cepted. I will next call for the report of the Committee on 

 Legislation. Mr. C. L. (lold, Chairman. 



Mr. Gold: Mr. Chairman, I have no written report. 

 The committee asked for no new legislation at the last ses- 

 sion of the legislature. They simply appeared with others 

 and asked for an appropriation to carry on the state exhibit 



