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The membership books are open at all times and ihe 

 Secretary or anyone of the Membership Committee would be 

 very glad to take your name and money at any time. Let us 

 make a strong effort at this meeting, and also throughout 

 the coming year, to increase the membership of our Society. 

 Surely every one of us has a friend or neighbor whom we 

 can induce to join. 



Report of Committee on Legislation. 



Mr, J. H. Hale, Chairman : There was really little for 

 the committee to do during the session of the last Legislature, 

 except to look out that we got our regular appropriation. 

 That was secured, and the Secretary and Treasurer have told 

 you what has been done with the money. There was a bill 

 in relation to amending the present law in relation to the 

 deer question. The damage done by deer has to be paid by 

 the State. Land owners, fruit growers and others, may, if 

 they find the deer doing damage, shoot them, not with a rifle, 

 however. As a result of that amendment, quite a number 

 of deer have been killed since its passage. There are some 

 matters that it seems best to have come before our committee 

 the coming year. I understand that representatives from 

 other states request that we join them in securing legislation 

 looking to more uniform methods of grading and packing 

 fruits for shipment. There are also matters in our own State 

 upon which action should be taken. 



Report of Committee on Injurious Insects. , 



Dr. VV. E. Britton, Chairman : It is seldom that this 

 committee can report upon a new injurious insect. This year 

 we must report on a pest which is new. not only to Connecti- 

 cut, but to the United States, and new to science. 



In the report of this committee for last year (Report of 

 Connecticut Pomological Society, \'ol. IX., 1907, p. 30), 

 mention was made of a sawflv larva which defoliated many 



