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go to Canada to grow good apples ; if we will give them the 

 same care in cultivation, in pruning and spraying, we can grow 

 as fine apples here in New England, and we certainly get as 

 good prices, and average much better prices for our crop than 

 anywhere else, because we have the best markets right at our 

 door, and we don't have to pay fifty cents a box to get them 

 to the market ; we can take them in the wagon to the market. 

 So I say to you now, only grow apples, but better apples. 

 The San Jose scale is going to drive out these fellows that 

 have got a few scabby apple trees ; they have got to go out 

 of business, and the man that will give his best thought to the 

 production of fine fruit is the fellow that is going to win out. 



President Eddy then announced the appointment of the 

 following special committee to consider the matter of member- 

 ship, in conformity with the resolution adopted at a previous 

 session : A. G. Gulley, Edwin Hoyt, Orrin Gilbert, Stanclift 

 Hale and Secretary Miles. 



Prof. Gulley : In accordance with the usages of this 

 Society, I would move that a committee be now appointed by 

 the chair on the nomination of officers, to present a list to be 

 voted for this afternoon. 



Seconded and unanimously passed. 



President Eddy appointed the following as the committee: 

 J. N. Barnes, Yalesville; George F. Piatt, Milford; J. T. 

 Molumphy, Berlin; G. G. Tillinghast, Vernon; J. E. Andrews, 

 New Britain. 



President Stimson of the Agricultural College: ]\Ir. 

 President: I think in the past four years I have not taken up 

 much of the time of the Pomological convention. To-day I 

 would like to take a few minutes on a matter that is of con- 

 siderable importance to us all. You heard about our big 

 neighboring state last night. Out in New York they are doing 

 things on a big scale ; they are trying to deal with the San 

 Jose scale in a large way in many localities. The conditions 

 in some parts of New York are very much like the conditions 

 in Connecticut, but in other parts the conditions are quite 

 different. We in Connecticut must depend on ourselves for 



