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Answer: If we don't, we deserve to. With wild cher- 

 ries within 100 yards of nearly every fruiting orchard, I do 

 not see why it is not more prevalent than it is. 



Mr. Ives: I should think it would be easier to spray 

 for the disease than it would to go around and cut down all 

 the wild cherries. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FAIRS AND 

 EXHIBITS. 



In reporting for the Committee on Fairs and Exhibits, 

 Professor A. G. GuUey of Storrs, said : 



As I came in President Hale was saying something to 

 you about our exhibition at Meriden last October, so it is 

 hardly necessary for me to speak at length on this matter. 

 He and Secretary Miles have both reported it as a great 

 success in every way. But we are not satisfied that it is a 

 profitable one — the exhibition cost us two or three hundred 

 dollars and I think we had about fifty visitors, besides our 

 members and exhibitors, so every visitor was worth about 

 five dollars to the Society. The fruit growers and con- 

 sumers of the State did not get the money out of it they 

 should have done. We had there one of the finest collec- 

 tions of apples ever shown, and much valuable information 

 could have been gathered from it, yet we had only this 

 small number of visitors to see it; therefore, it seems to 

 be a question whether it was profitable in the fullest sense, 

 if the people don't care enough about it to take the pains 

 to go, we certainly cannot force them to do so. I think an 

 exhibition ought to be held every year, in some form, for 

 the benefit of the people; at the same time, it is a pretty 

 expensive one. 



Could not an exhibition he held in connection with 

 some other Society, at their annual fairs? It seems to me 

 we could thus combine with some other society, and hold 

 an annual fruit exhibition, possibly in connection with 

 their fair. The results of our Meriden exhibition was well 

 worth all the trouble and cost of putting together; whether 

 the people of the State got the money back or not I do not 



