ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 9 



The President : The by-laws provide that the President 

 shall appoint annually two auditors to audit the accounts of the 

 Secretary and Treasurer, and I will appoint at this time for that 

 work, Mr. A. C. Sternberg of West Hartford, and Mr. H. E. 

 Savage of Berlin. They will please audit these accounts and 

 report later. 



Are there any inquiries you would like to make of the Treas- 

 urer? If not that finishes the reports of the elected officers, 

 and the reports of the committees will now be in order. The 

 first is the report of the Legislative Committee : Mr. A. R. 

 Wadsworth of Farmington. 



Mr. Wadsworth: Mr. President, Ladies and Gcntleuien: 

 I would say, as most of you know, that we got through at the 

 last session of the Legislature an increase in our appropriation 

 from the State of $500, which makes the income of the Society, 

 at the present time, from that source, $1,000. We also 

 secured, Mr. President, for the suppression of the San Jose 

 scale, and the other insect pests of the State an appropriation 

 of $3,000, which has been turned over to the Experiment Station 

 at New Haven, and the w'ork is now under the charge of Prof. 

 Britton. You will remember that we had quite an argument 

 whether that should be placed with the Agricultural College at 

 Storrs, or with the Experiment Station at New Haven, but it 

 w^as found that they were not prepared at Storrs at that time, 

 and in such a condition that they could carry on the work to as 

 good advantage to the fruit growers of the State as they were 

 at the Experiment Station at New Haven, and so it was placed 

 with the Station at New Haven. We believe that the passage 

 of that bill will result in a great deal of good to the public, 

 and especially to the fruit growers of the State. 



The President : According to that report there has been 

 considerable done for our benefit during the last year. These 

 two appropriations, — one of money appropriated for the 

 Society's use, and the other the appropriation for the suppres- 

 sion of insect pests like the San Jose scale, and others — that 

 was a very important matter to us. We shall have more to say 

 about that later on in the proceedings. 



The next report in order is that of the Committee on Mem- 

 bership. 



Mr. Orrin Gilbert: Mr. President, when my predecessor 



