Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01
eoMoLooIsTs TO
BE IN SESSION,
State Society Will Hold 18th Annua
 Meeting at Hartford.

The completed programme for the 18th annual meeting of the Connecti- cut Pomological society at Foot Guard armory, Hartford, Tuesday, Wednes- day and Thursday of this week, offers a large number of practical and inter esting addresses.
 Combined with the meeting of the fruit growers will be the annual meet ing of the Connecticut Vegetable Crow CTS association, and on the afternoon of each day the two organizations will hold joint sessions.
 The meeting of the Genealogical so- ciety will open with the address of President Stancliffe Hale of Glaston- Secretary H. c. c. Miles of Milford and Treasurer Minor Ives of Meriden will make their reports and various etand- ing committees will make reports.
 At the afternoon session Tuesday at 2 o'clock pr. William E. Britton of report on Injurious Insects During the Season of 1915. Dr. George P. Clinton of New Haven, state botanist, will re- port on Fungous Diseases in Connecti- cut the Past Year. Two illustrated lectures will be given Prof; M. A. horticulturist, will talk on Problems Of the Year in Peach Growing and Mar keting. E. M. Stoddard of New Ha- van, assistant botanist, Connecticut ex- pertinent station, will speak on Some Results of Orchard Work at the Con- uecticut Experiment Station.
 Historical Address.
 The session Tuesday evening at 7.3o will open with remarks by visiting del- by Miss Ruth H. William of West Hartford, with accompaniInents by Miss Gladys Schaffner Mrs. Robert Williams of Wallingford will give readings. Historical addresses on nnology will be made by Norman s. Platt of New Haven, J. H. Hale of Glastonbury and J. Norris Barnes of Wallingford. W. A. Cook, county agent for Hartford county, will speak on What the Farm Bureaus May Do for Connecticut Agriculture.
 Wednesday morning the session will open at 9.30. There will be three ad- dresses, Prof. P. J. Parrott, entomolo- gist. New York experiment station, Geneva, N. Y., will talk on Spraying Putnam of Greenfield, Mass. county agent for Franklin county, Mass, will speak on Profitable Small Fruit Gull ture in New England. John J. Dillon, commissioner New York state depart ment of foods and markets. will talk on What New York State is Doing to Solve the Problems of Fruit Marketing and Distribution.
 Jcint Session.
 At the joint session Wednesday af- ternoon at 1.30 President W. H. Burr will speak. L. Willard Minch of Rridgeton, N. J., vice president of the New Jersey State Horticultural socie- ty, will give an illustrated address on Truck Farming in South Jersey. The Minch brothers have 800 acres under cultivation. Dr. B. H. Jenkins, director of the Connecticut State Experiment station, in his address on Feeding Fruit and Plants Under Present Day Condi- tions, will tell the fruit growers apd vegetable men how~to fertilize their crops under the war time scarcity of materials. Howard W. Selby of Bus tleton, Pa, will give Some Phases of the Marketing Question.
 The anniversary banquet will be held at Hotel Garde Wednesday evening at ' o'clock. Dr. E. H. Jenkins will be toastmaster. The speakers will include Dairy and Food Commissioner Frank H. Stadtmueller, Rev. Dr. William G. Fennell, pastor of the Asylum avenue Baptist church, Hartford.
 Thursday morning at s;3o c. B. Hough, director of the Washington, Conn, Fruit Growers association, will speak on A Cooperative Fruit Crow ers' Association and What It Has Ac- complished. Dr. Charles D. Woods, director of the Maine Agricultural Ex- pertinent station. will speak on Work and Results in Highmoor Farm Orch ards. There will be five-minute talks on Personal Problems of the Practical Fruit Grower by G. A. Drew, c. l.. Gold. w. H. Baldwin, H. H. Lyman and N. H. Barnes.
 Election of Officers.
 At the joint session Thursday after noon at 1.30 the Pomological society will elect officers. Lewis l.. Morrell of Kinderhook, N. r., will speak on How One Grower Solves the Marketing Problem. c. W. Prescott of Concord, Mass, president of the Massachusetts Asparagus Growers association, will speak on Asparagus Growing. MT. Prescott has 25 acres in asparagus.
 There will be a question box and as opportunity occurs many practical questions will be answered. In connec- ton with the meeting there will be the usual extensive exhibition of Connecd- cuts best apples. All the meetings will be open to the public.