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expressing voiir confidence in me, then I thank you and I wish 

 vou to know that I appreciate very sincerely the action you 

 have taken. 



The remainder of the time until the meeting closed was 

 devoted to discussing questions from the list, as follows : 



Question 20: Name six most profitable apples for Con- 

 necticut planting. 



J. N. Barnes: Rhode Island Greening, Fallavvater, Fall 

 Pippin, and William's Favorite. I would not name these as 

 being the best apples, but I think they are most excellent. 



A Member : I would add Red Astrachan for one and 

 Gravenstein for another, and also the Baldwin. 



Mr. Staples : I don't know so much about Connecticut 

 needs, but in Maine the favorite apples are the Baldwin, North- 

 ern Spy and the King. 



A Member : Can Mr. Farnham give us any new varieties 

 of strawberries? 



Mr. Farnham : I don't know that I can give you any 

 really new varieties. I think the Chesapeake is a good berry ; 

 any of the standard varieties are all right. 



President Putnam : I have found that the Mead is the 

 best very late variety that I have tried. 



Question No. 41 : What is the cause of the specks of dry 

 rot just under the skin of the Baldwin apple? Is this consti- 

 tutional with the Baldwin, or is it simply a local manifesta- 

 tion? What other apples are susceptible to this trouble? 



Dr. Clinton : I spoke of that in my report. Apparently 

 weather conditions have something to do with it. although not 

 surely. This year it has been more prominent in this State 

 and the weather conditions have been unusual. So far as we 

 know there is no one thing we can do to prevent it. 



A few more questions on the program remained to be 

 discussed, but as many of the members were leaving to take 

 early trains for home, at 4.40 President Putnam brought the 

 session to a close, declaring the Seventeenth Annual Meeting 

 adjourned without date. 



