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able to find any remedy for, and I believe something will 

 have to be done in this regard by the state authorities. That 

 is the rot on the underside of head lettuce. 



Mr. Work: Mr. Jagger has been working on that. 



President Greffrath: Mr. Jagger told me last fall 

 what the disease was, but up to the present time they have 

 discovered no remedy. He thought that was the same dis- 

 ease that was attacking our celery. 



Committee Work. 



Mr. Work : Is there anything to be said about committee 

 work? When this Association was organized, a great deal 

 of the work was done from the office. Quite a little of the 

 committee work was initiated in that way, and the men who 

 are in those committees did the things that were suggested to 

 them. In the case of two committees, we have the initiative 

 coming from other points. In the Federation Committee Mr. 

 Cook has been very active; and in the Seed Committee, Mr. 

 Greffrath is helping powerfully. He is making suggestions 

 and taking the lead. We ought to have the same situation in 

 other directions. 



There is one thing that has not been mentioned this whole 

 meeting, the question of weights and measures. Our Legis- 

 lation Committee has done mighty little. We ought to have 

 one man on that committee in Troy, Albany, or Schenectady, 

 where he can keep in touch with what is going on at the 

 Capitol. In the case of the experimental committee, that 

 man ought from his own initiative to get in touch with the 

 members. The members ought to be willing to write to him 

 telling what problems ought to be investigated. He ought to 

 sift those problems, and the State Association should put its 

 weight behind him. Our committees ought to be served by 

 their chairmen. 



Mr. Bonney: I think Mr. Work has struck a vital point 

 with us. That is just where the secret of our success in this 

 organization is going to lie. We cannot as a body accomplish 

 these things. 



