26 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



oMr. Fenn : Mr. President, in conversation with one of 

 the members of the present legislature, he said that the amount 

 of the appropriations that were being asked for this year, if 

 granted, would probably result in a renewal of the state tax. 

 He thought that anything that the farmers might ask for 

 would be cut out. How true that is I do not know. ]ylany 

 of you who have followed up the proceedings of the legis- 

 lature know that immense appropriations are being asked for, 

 and, should it be likely to result in the state tax being revived 

 again, he doubted very much whether you will get vers' much 

 money, even though you ask for it. He took that view. 



Mr. Hale: Mr. President, if anything of that kind will 

 bring the state tax back onto the statute books of this state, 

 then, I say, let us have it. We have been getting a lot of 

 money, to run the state, out of the corporations and throwing 

 it away recklessly. That state tax bogie doesn't scare me a 

 little bit. It isn't such a bad thing as some people think. 



Mr. Fenn : T see by the roll that there are ninety-seven 

 farmers in the legislature. They ought to be able to do 

 something. 



Mr. Hale : That, sometimes, is more of a disadvantage 

 than it is an advantage. My experience shows, Mr. Presi- 

 dent, that they will hold together on everything but agricul- 

 tural legislation. 



Mr. Fenn : I think that criticism, to a certain extent, is 

 true. Every agricultural appropriation that has been asked 

 for has been obtained by the aid of the lawyers and members 

 who are not farmers, more than it has by the farmers them- 

 selves. That is one trouble. They can not be depended on. 



Secretary Miles : Mr. Chairman, I want to say just a 

 word in connection with this matter, because I have given 

 the matter some thought. It seems to me it is a little too late 

 at this session of the legislature to attempt the plan which 

 Mr. Hubbard and Mr. Hale have suggested, and, if that is 

 the case, then I think we should press for this increased appro- 

 priation. Alany of us believe that that is the best course for 

 us to take. I am told that the Dairymen's Association is 

 asking for an increase for institute work. I believe they will 

 be likely to get it, and it seems to me the Pomological Society 



