144 '^'^^ CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Middlesex, Chas. E. Lyman, Middlefield ; New London, W. S. 

 Thomas, Groton ; IVindhani, H. B. Buell, Eastford ; Tolland, 

 Andrew Kngsbury, Coventry. 



President Eddy : I will say I appreciate the compli- 

 ment you have again paid me, but I would have been better 

 pleased if you had put some one else in as president. I wull 

 endeavor to do* under the circumstances, the best I can for you. 

 (Applause.) 



Secretary Miles : Would it be entirely out of order and 

 using time more valuable for something else, if I should claim 

 y^our attention for a moment to thank you for reelecting 

 me for, I think, the seventh time to the office of secretary of 

 the Society. I wish to say that I appreciate your continued 

 confidence in me, and if you will assist me in the coming year 

 as you have in the past years with the work, I will try to do as 

 well, or better, than in the past, to make our Society and its 

 work a great success, and a power for good in the state of 

 Connecticut. That is the object for which we are all working, 

 and that is why I say we must all have our hearts in the work. 

 I thank you very much, gentlemen. 



]\Ir. Hale : The remarks of the worthy secretary call to 

 mind the amount of earnest work that he has done for this 

 Society for a very small compensation, and we have loaded it 

 on him again. He is not a perfect secretary, and he makes 

 some mistakes, and he is open to criticism, as we all are, but 

 I don't believe that there is any member of this whole Pomo- 

 logical Society that would as willingly put in as much time 

 and do the work belonging to this Society as our secretary 

 does, and it seems to me that every one who comes to these 

 meetings as they do, year after year, and enjoys them, and 

 pays the little insignificant dollar, ought to do more, when they 

 consider the amount of work that our secretary does all through 

 the year at the rate of about five cents a day, and I think that 

 instead of paying a dollar membership fee, we ought to be 

 willing to pay three or five dollars, a*id I certainly am ashamed 

 of some of my brother fruit growers in Connecticut who, I 

 notice, come to these meeting's year after year, who never pay 



