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vicinity have purchased ahout 50,000 lbs. of sulphur, which if 

 purchased in individual lots would have made an increased 

 cost of close on to $200.00, a sum well worth keeping- in the 

 orchard men's pockets. 



Let us look into this matter more carefully in future. 



Report of Committee on Legislation. 



Mr. J. H. Halk : I will make a very brief report. The 

 only work of the committee on legislation was to present to 

 the General Assembly our claim for an appropriation of 

 $1,500.00 a year instead of a $r, 000.00, and we had no trouble 

 in getting it as far as that is concerned. The legislation was 

 satisfactory, but I judge from our treasurer's report we may 

 need some more legislation later on. The suggestion in our 

 worthy president's address that there was work for the com- 

 mittee on legislation i.n doing- something further to guard the 

 interests of fruit-growers in our towns, cities and villages, was 

 noted by your committee, Mr. President, but it seems to me 

 that the trespass law of the State of Connecticut is stronger 

 than almost any other state in the union. Every tree owner 

 and every land owner is his own policeman, and every man 

 in his employ is his own policeman, and may arrest at any 

 time persons found trespassing on his property. You can't 

 g-et any stronger law than that. Many people think it is alto- 

 gether too strong. Connecticut has law enough, but the law 

 is only backed up by public sentiment, and the public senti- 

 ment is, God's good fruit really belongs to everybody, and 

 the small boy thinks it belongs to him as well as anybody else, 

 and he always has and always will, and I think it is up to the 

 members of the Pomological Society to plant more trees, and 

 give the little boys a better chance rather than stopping them. 

 [Applause.] (Some of the old fellows sympathize with that; 

 they have been there, too.) 



Mr. President, I don't want to let the good report of my 

 friend Barnes pass without saying something further. We 

 all recognize P)rother Barnes as one of the shrewdest and 

 wisest of business men in the fruit interests of Connecticut. 



