178 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Upon being put to vote, the above amendment was unan- 

 imously adopted. 



Prof. Gulley : As there has been some objection raised to 

 the next section of the amendment concerning hfe membership, 

 I want to speak a Httle upon it. The point is, we have some 

 men in this house, who, if you will just say how much money 

 you think it is worth to be a member of this society, will pay 

 it. Outside of that, we have men in our state who are willing 

 to come in and help us out, and all you would have to say to 

 them would be that it costs ten dollars to become life members, 

 and they would gladly pay it, and perhaps you wouldn't see 

 those men in five years again. Now the question is, would 

 you get as much as under the present practice of annual mem- 

 berships? Now it amounts to 40 cents a year from a life 

 membership. It may cut a little on the actual returns from an- 

 nual members for the first two or three or five years, but just 

 remember that that ten dollars is still working, and it will 

 be working fifty years from now, if this society lives. Here 

 is the point, the membership still exists ; in other words, for the 

 sake of taking a little less now, you take chances of getting 

 it in the future, and you do get these outside members that 

 are not particularly interested, but come to our meetings only 

 now and then. When you people come up to the college at a 

 summer meeting, there is a large element of our business men 

 from Willimantic come up, and some of those men. would help 

 up with a life membership, and we would never have to bother 

 with them again. Ten years from now this society will be 

 in better shape than it is at present with a life membership 

 plan. 



Mr. Ives : I am a young man, and I feel too cheap to get 

 ofif on forty cents ; I would rather pa}- my Society the dollar, 

 and then gwe the Society ten dollars. I want to pay all my 

 days while I am living. 



President Eddy : I suppose every man has that privilege 

 of paying the dollar and the ten, if he wants to. 



Mr. G. S. Butler : You say that it is still yir. Ives' privi- 

 lege. I don't doubt Mr. Ives might keep that up. but there 

 are people in Connecticut who ma}- think it is enough to pay 

 in their ten dollars and then quit. I was a member of this 



