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Mr. Hoyt: ''I don't know but we better fumigate our 

 lecturer." 



Professor Johnson: ''I don't think there will be any 

 danger where there is as much 'gas' as we have here." 



Professor Johnson's very instructive address, which by the 

 aid of the stereopticon brought out this important subject most 

 clearly, was greatly appreciated. At the conclusion of the dis- 

 cussion President Merriman announced the following special 

 committee, to act during the meeting: 



On the Exhibit of Fruits. — N. S. Piatt, New Haven; 

 Charles Black, Hightstown, N. J., and Prof. A. G. Gulley, 

 of Storrs. 



On the Implement Exhibit. — J. C. Eddy, Simsbury; J. T. 

 Molumphy, Berlin, and J. Norris Barnes, of Yalesville. 



At 5.30 the Society took a recess until the evening session. 



EVENING SESSION — FIRST DAY. 



Convention called to order at 7.40 P. M., President Merri- 

 man in the chair. 



"The President: "Our first speaker this evening will be 

 Prof. W. E. Britton, of the New Haven Experiment Station, 

 who will present a paper upon ' State Legislation Against Fruit 

 Pests: The Situation in Connecticut.'" 



STATE LEGISLATION AGAINST FRUIT PESTS: THE 

 situation in CONNECTICUT. 



BY W. E. BRITTON. 



On March 5, 1897, a convention assembled at Washington, 

 D. C "to consider and recommend the most appropriate 

 federal and state legislation for preventing the introduction or 

 diffusion of noxious insects and fungi in the United States." 

 The call for such a meeting was issued by the Ohio State 

 Horticultural Society, which passed a resolution to that effect 

 in February, 1896. The experiment stations and boards and 

 societies of agriculture and horticulture throughout the country 

 responded by sending delegates to the number of forty -six 

 from seventeen states and the District of Columbia. Papers 



