22 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



to present to the legislature a bill asking- for an annual appro- 

 priation of that amount, so that in future it will not have to 

 be brought up at each session of the legislature. 



The President: Gentlemen, you have heard the report 

 and recommendations by the chairman of the committee on 

 legislation. What will you do with it? I think it will need 

 some action as to whether the Society had better go before 

 the legislature and ask for an increase in its appropriation. 

 It is certain that w'e can use it. It will all be useful in insti- 

 tute work. That is the idea in asking for this extra five hun- 

 dred dollars — to use it in institute work. Last year 

 we devoted over $100.00, but it was in partnership 

 with other organizations, and it has been thought that 

 if we could secure an increase, that very much more work 

 could be done, and undoubtedly the state would receive a 

 good deal more for the investment. There is no doubt at all 

 but what this money would be well invested by the state. I 

 should like to hear what Mr. N. S. Piatt has to say about this 

 matter, or if he has any suggestions to make. 



Mr. Platt: Mr. President, I do not care just at 

 this moment to make any motion in this matter. I know, 

 however, that there is some feeling in the state that would 

 be against an increase in our appropriation, a feeling that it 

 is a sort of class legislation, but how much that would affect 

 the matter I do not know\ Our Society could use, and would 

 like to use, fifteen hundred dollars a year, if it can be secured, 

 in the same way we secured the appropriation a few years 

 ago, and I think w^e ought to try to get it in the way our 

 committee proposes. That is about the condition I am in so 

 far as I have thought about the matter. 



]\Ir. Kelsey : ]\Ir. President, I think this organization 

 ought to take into consideration the fact that the State insti- 

 tute work has been growing very rapidly in most of our 

 sister states, and more rapidly than it has been in Connecti- 

 cut, I am sure. In those states the appropriations for that 

 purpose have been doubled and doubled, and then trebled, 

 year after year, and it seems to me that the state of Connecti- 

 cut ought to be willing to do something to keep up with the 

 procession. ]\Ioney has been appropriated year after year in 



