152 THE COXNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



New York State have discovered in young fruit stock broug-ht 

 from France something Hke 1,800 nests of the brown tail moth 

 containing living caterpillars. These they discovered only by 

 chance. Only for their discovery and destruction they might 

 have been distributed throughout New York and other States. 

 At the present time there is no provision for the inspection of 

 nursery stock at the port of entry. This should be a 

 national provision. The different State officials have no 

 authority to inspect the stock that is brought into the custom 

 house, and it is only after the stock arrives at its destination 

 that it can be examined. Our law at the present time is 

 weak in that respect. At a meeting of the nurserymen in 

 Baltimore during December they drew up roughly a law 

 which is an attempt at making the matter more uniform. I 

 have a copy of the same. It has some features which I think 

 desirable to place on our statute books. I would present the 

 same at this time and make a motion that the whole matter 

 be referred to our legislative committee, with power to act, 

 if they see fit. 



Professor Gulley: I have no doubt that the matter is 

 very desirable. I certainly would support the motion and 

 am in favor of having the resolution passed so that action be 

 taken as far as possible in line with other States. 



The motion to refer the matter to the Committee on 

 Legislation was put to vote and unanimously passed. 



President Gold: We are now to have an address by a 

 gentleman from New Jersey who was unable to be present 

 yesterday, when he was scheduled to speak. I am glad to 

 introduce to you Mr. Albert T. Repp, who will tell us of 

 "Methods and Results on a Successful New Jersey Fruit 

 Farm." 



