no THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



our old rate, we want to gel behind a three-minute horse, 

 and the automobiles from the adjoining states are going 

 through our state at a speed of i6 or 17 miles an hour, and 

 the consequence is that the farmers' wives and daughters 

 have been driven from the roads. Every day or two an acci- 

 dent is happening, and somebody is being killed from the 

 reckless way in which these vehicles are speeding through 

 the state. Not only that, the clouds of dust that are being 

 raised are ruining the small fruits. Now I have in front of 

 my place about three thousand front feet, and all that ground 

 is in strawberries, and with a west wnnd blowing there is a 

 .cloud of dust that is constantly going over the strawberry 

 beds and disfiguring the fruit, and yet we have got to meet 

 this. Air. President, I don't know as there is very much 

 more I can say, except that I wish we in New Jersey at our 

 horticultural meetings could get such fine talkers as you get 

 at yours here. I am delighted to see the enthusiasm that you 

 good men of Connecticut are showing by coming out and 

 attending your meetings. It is to me a very good sign of the 

 progress of fruit growing in Connecticut, where persons take 

 an interest to come in the way they have attended this meet- 

 ing, especially yesterday, and I want to congratulate you, 

 Mr. President, on that feature of your meeting. 



President Eddy : I will call on Air. C. E. \\'heeler ot 

 Alaine, who is largely interested in apple growing. 



AIr. Wheeler : Air. President, and members of the Con- 

 necticut Pomological Society : While I am not here as a dele- 

 vgate from the Alaine Pomological Society, yet being a life 

 member of that society, I know something of its workings, 

 and I want to say in the first place that they are working" 

 .along many of the same lines as you are, and I will now give 

 you just a brief history of the beginning of that society. I 

 think it was organized in 1873, and one of its by-laws is that 

 every life member shall pay ten dollars, which shall constitute 

 a permanent fund, of which the interest can be used from 

 year to year. The state always gives them one thousand 

 dollars each year to use, and we hold our meetings a little 

 .different from what 3-011 do. We at first used that money 

 in holding an annual meeting in September in connection 



