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warm days of November and December, and the females lay 

 eggs. The males are seen flying about, and as many as fifty 

 or sixty were observed on the trunk of a single tree. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



W. E. BRITTON, New Haven, Chairman. 



C. D. JARVIS, Stores. 



W. E. FROST, Bridgewater. 



Report of Committee on Exhibitions. 



Mr. L. C. Root, Chairman : Your committee met with 

 the executive committee early in the year and it was voted to 

 accept the invitation of the Berlin Agricultural Society to 

 hold our fall exhibition with them. At a field meeting later 

 in the season after the continued drought, the officers and 

 some of the members present discussed the matter, and it 

 seemed to most of us that there would be no fruit to exhibit. 

 Therefore it was thought best to drop the Fall exhibition if 

 the Fair Association would let us off. This they were un- 

 willing to do, as their advertisements were out, and they 

 would be unable to get other attractions. The officers of 

 the Berlin Society assured their strong support, and your 

 committee cannot too highly praise them for the manner in 

 which they provided for and assisted us in the exhibition. 



Your Secretary sent out a strong plea for an exhibit from 

 all who had any good fruit. Evidently everyone responded, 

 for there was a good display of all kinds of Connecticut- 

 grown fruit, even peaches. Every visitor must have been sur- 

 prised to see such a fine collection after so unfavorable a 

 season. A total of over one thousand plates of fruit was 

 shown, divided as follows : Apples, six hundred ; peaches, one 

 hundred twenty-five ; grapes, one hundred twenty-five ; pears, 

 one hundred twenty ; plums, twenty-five ; and quinces, twenty. 

 To these should be added the canned fruits, jellies, etc., which 

 were evidently cut down (in quantity, not quality) by the 

 drought. The nut collection and a fine collection of specimens 



