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numbers of somebody else with a fair reputation on the 

 packages, and then tell folks where they can be found. Buyers 

 that are stuck that way once are not going to be stuck again on 

 your packages or mine, and they are not going back to buy to- 

 morrow morning unless they can buy at their own price. Put 

 your fruit up nicely. I say do it because it is right, and because 

 it is honest. You will feel better for it. It is the proper thing 

 to do. They say honesty is the best policy, but if we cannot 

 be honest only for policy's sake it is a very doubtful kind of 

 honesty. But that saying is true, nevertheless. It will pay to 

 be honest. But if you cannot be honest in any other way, and 

 be honest and do right for right's sake, then be honest for 

 policy's sake. It will pay you to do so. 



The President: "There is one report that we have not 

 yet had, that of our Committee on Legislation, of which Mr. J. 

 R. Barnes, of West Cheshire, is chairman. We will hear that 

 report now. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION 



Mr. President and Members: 



The Committee on Business and Legislation beg leave to 

 report, that in their opinion, an efifort should be made to secure 

 from the state an increased appropriation for the use of this 

 Society. We would suggest that the Legislature be asked to 

 appropriate the sum of $i,ooo a year for the coming two years. 

 Your Committee would recommend also that a law be en- 

 acted looking to the control of orchard pests, and that a com- 

 mittee be appointed by this Society to draft a suitable bill to 

 be presented to the present Legislature. 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. R. Barnes, 



J. B. Noble, 



A. R. Wadsworth. 



Motion made and seconded that the report ot the committee 

 be accepted and the recommendation adopceu. 



