176 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



SECOND DAY. 



Wednesday, February 7th, 1912. 



MORNING SESSION. 



The second day of the Society's 21st Annual Meeting 

 started off with another big attendance and unabated inter- 

 est. President Rogers called the morning session to order 

 at 9 :40 o'clock. The audience, however, was slow in assem- 

 bling, so much of the members' attention being centered in 

 the exhibits in the town hall, as well as the demonstrations 

 in apple packing. 



President Rogers : Ladies and Gentlemen, this meet- 

 ing was called for half-past nine this morning, and it is a 

 few minutes past that time now. If you will be seated we 

 will begin in a few minutes on our questions, so that we may 

 have something interesting going on. Now there are a good 

 many questions on this program wihich you can have called 

 up and we will try to find somebody in the audience who will 

 answer them. We also have a Question Box here, and if 

 any of you have any questions that you want answered please 

 send them up. We will not agree to answer all of them, but 

 we will try. 



This question has been sent in : "What is the cause and 

 how shall we prevent scald on the Rhode Island Greening 

 apple ?" Now is there some gentleman in the audience who 

 will undertake to answer that? So far as we can, we would 

 like to get the name cf each person who answers, so that 

 our report will have it when it is published. Also the name 

 of the person who asks the question. So' please, when you 

 arise, give your name first. 



Dr. Clinton : Mr. President, there has been a good 

 deal of complaint of that scald trouble this past year, more 



