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A Member: I move the passage of the resokition as 

 read. 



Motion seconded. 



President Rogers : It has been moved and dulv sec- 

 onded. Would you Hke to remark on the resohuion? 



Mr. Curtis : It seemsi to me that the committee would 

 have to do under that resolution a great deal of work. Thev 

 would have to go ahead and investigate the question of supply 

 and demand for apples, for instance, in Xew England. Thev 

 will have to find out whether enoug"h apples are raised to 

 supply the consumption. That information at present can be 

 had nowhere except from the railroad officials. I have tried 

 within the past two weeks to get from the Xew Haven rail- 

 road a statement of exports and imports. Thev tell me they 

 have no figures which show that, but by putting a man on 

 their returns and going through a good deal of work they 

 can get that information. That is a matter of considerable 

 expense to them. They will not undertake that expense in 

 their regular work, and it is a question whether this associa- 

 tion is in earnest enough to justify paying the railroad for the 

 cost of obtaining that information. In other words, I do 

 not thing the committee will be able to get very far unless the 

 Treasurer or some one is authorized to pav expenses of a 

 definite amount of money. How much money it will take it 

 is impossible to tell, but I should like to inquire whether the 

 resolution which the Secretary has offered contemplates the 

 expenditure of the mone\- of the Society in order to obtain 

 this information ? 



Secretary Miles: Mr. President, I think that the 

 resolution under which the committee was originallv appoint- 

 ed did not carry with it any provision of that kind, and 

 that the work which the committee has done so far has been 

 done without expense to the Society. 



Mr. Curtis: All I want to say, Mr. President, is that 

 I think it doubtful whether we should be able to accomplish 

 anything of great value, or obtain any statistics which would 

 be reliable along this line unless we are authorized to spend 



