4 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



It is aimed particularly at the San Jose scale, which each 

 season keeps bobbing up in new localities, where its presence 

 has not been suspected before. It multiplies so rapidly that it 

 soon injures both tree and fruit, and its control has up to this 

 time been so difficult, that this provision by the State offering 

 assistance as it does, can only be a wise one. Take notice of 

 its provision and make use of its help. 



It makes it the duty of the State Entomologist to visit and 

 inspect any grounds upon request, or any grounds which he has 

 reason to suspect are infested with serious pests. Prof. W. E. 

 Britton of the New Haven Experiment Station is the State 

 Entomologist, and he is thoroughly in sympathy with the work 

 of the Connecticut Pomological Society. Fellow members, this 

 new enemy, the San Jose scale, is one of the hardest to manage 

 of all our orchard problems. One of our members who has 

 been battling with it the longest, says : "Our plans for orchard 

 work in the future will have to be made over new and made 

 with reference to it." 



I have not yet been confronted with it on my own grounds, 

 but my advice would be to any one finding a new colony, to use 

 vigorous measures to prevent its spread. I would rather fight 

 one colony than six, and six is what you will have (and perhaps 

 more) if you neglect it a little while. Spraying for insects and 

 disease seems just as important as ever. 



The results are just as evident. The coming season is likely 

 to inherit from the last a bountiful supply of spores, of monilia, 

 and probably apple and peach scab and other fungi, the products 

 of a wet season. It behooves us to look well after these things, 

 and where we can do so, remove the cause of trouble. 



We have a full program before us, perhaps too full, for I 

 believe in having a free interchange of thought and in asking 

 and answering questions, when opportunities come. Be ready 

 to express yourselves and to draw out information by questions. 

 The question box is also before you, and I trust will be utilized 

 freely. 



The President : The next matter will be the report of the 

 Secretary. 



Mr. President and Members of the Society: 



The increasing interest in fruit culture that is manifest all 

 over our State : the number of acres devoted to and the capital 



