lilCllTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 21 



committee of the ficneral Assembly for the purpose of co- 

 o]XM-atin<;- with a hke committee for each of the other Xew 

 iMii^laiul States, with the idea of attemptino- uniform le.^isla- 

 tion on such matters as affect the common interests of all 

 these States. 



And we hereby plcds^e our hearty su])])ort to the move- 

 ment. 



L'pou motion t)f Professor GuUey. duly seconded, the res- 

 olution was adopted. 



]\[r. Hale: 1 move that President Gold be authorized 

 to go before the Judiciary Committee at the Capitol this af- 

 ternoon and present this resolution before that Committee. 



Dulv seconded and passed. 



Report of the Committee on Exhibitions. 



]\Ir. L. C. Root, Chairman : Our exhibition of 1908 was 

 held in connection with the Rockville F'air, the date coiuing 

 nearer the ripening- of apples, of which the greater part of 

 our P""all exhibition is composed. The total number of plates 

 exhibited fell far Ijelow (uir usual record on account of the 

 generally short fruit crop. Our growlers have come to know 

 vvdiat good fruit is. and that it is of no use to try to compete 

 with imperfect fruit. Therefore the quality was good, even 

 to the taxing of our excellent judges to decide on the first 

 premium in some cases. 



One member, who grows almost perfect fruit, had things 

 altogether too nuich his own way, and your committee washes 

 to sav right here that esjiecial effort should be made to get our 

 larger growers to exhibit at this annual fair, and thus make 

 more competition. It would also prove that this is a fruit- 

 growing State and hel]) to sell those abandoned farms at good 

 prices. 



The small growers are keeping these exhibitions up and 

 are doing well, but let us have help from those w'ho have large 

 quantities of fruit to make selections from. 



