1 84 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



health, we are sorry to say, is not of the best, and it requires 

 him to rehnquish the duties of the treasurer's office, and I 

 wish to move that this Society offer Mr. ]\Ioore a vote of 

 thanks for this long- service of his as treasurer of the Pomo- 

 logical Society. 



Seconded and passed unanimously. 



Mr. Har\'ev Je\\ell: If it is in order I would like to 

 offer a resolution at this time, which is as follows : 



Rcsokrd, That this Society discountenances all forms of 

 gambling and immoral shows in connection with the agricul- 

 tural fairs in this state ; and we hereby instruct the officers of 

 this Society not to allow our annual fruit exhibition to be 

 held in connection with any agricultural fair the coming sea- 

 son, the management of which will allow at their fair any of 

 these objectionable features ; and further resolved that we 

 heartily endorse any legislation tending to clean management 

 of the fairs in these particulars. 



Mr. Jewell: Many of you are acquainted more or less 

 with the conditions existing at some of our fairs, to which 

 this resolution alludes. Many of you may know that there 

 is a bill, or one in preparation, that will be brought before 

 the legislature pending, to wipe out these objectionable fea- 

 tures, and it seems to me that this society had better get up 

 its own exhibition independently of the agricultural fairs, 

 and so put ourselves on record for cleanliness and morality, 

 rather than to join with these other associations which coun- 

 tenance these features. 



Mr. Edward Killam : I am glad that matter has come 

 up. There are some of the agricultural fairs in this state 

 that are a disgrace to the state and to the towns that hold 

 them, and I hope we will get a unanimous vote to have it 

 cleaned up. 



Mr. J. H. Hale: If that resolution passes, there is not a 

 single fair in the state we can associate with, as we have in 

 the past, unless you go to the Orange Fair. 



A IMember: There is one down in Fairfield County, too. 



Mr. Jewell: Better go without any exhibition of our 

 own, rather than to go in with these immoral features. 



