'nVENTY-I'lRST ANNUAL MEETING. 



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I'residknt Rogers: Tlie next report is that of our I'ub- 

 lioitv Committee, Mr. K. 1). Curtis, Chairman. 



Report of Publicity Committee. 



Your Committee cannot report that it has acconiphshed 

 very much of importance during the past year. In conform- 

 it\- with the resohition of the Society at its hist meeting, the 

 Chairman of the Committee went to Washington last Febru- 

 ary and attempted to get the Department of Agriculture to 

 take up immediately a soil survey of the wdiole state. It was 

 found that, owing to the efforts of the Congressman from 

 that part of the state, the field work for a survey of New 

 London County had just been completed, and it is believed 

 that the report should soon appear. Owing to the great de- 

 mand for such work from all parts of the country, and the 

 limited appropriation for the Bureau of Soils, it can appar- 

 ently not be expected that we shall get one county surveyed 

 each year, but your Committee will keep in touch \\ith the 

 situation and use its best eft'orts to accomplish as much as 

 possible. 



The Committee still has copies of its first and second 

 bulletins, which it will be glad to supply to all who are will- 

 ing to undertake their distribution. It is not the business of 

 the Society, hriwever, to advertise the state at large. The 

 proper sphere of the Publicity Cmimittee must be in assist- 

 ing in the sale oi Connecticut fruits and in reducing the cost 

 of this production. 



Your Committee has given much consideration to the 

 question of advertising Connecticut fruit, but it has reached 

 the conclusion that no form of advertising which it could 

 undertake would be of value in the absence of a selling 

 agency or some similar body, to which inquiries for fruit 

 could be referred. In view of the low prices for apples 

 which have prevailed this winter, and the enormous crop 

 which was harvested, it must be evident that some better 



