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quite an outlay to meet the expenses of correspondence, etc., and 

 he would move that an appropriation of twenty-five dollars he 

 made to cover these incidental expenses. 



Carried. 



A number of written and verbal reports from local societies 

 were presented, which will be given at length in the latter part of 

 the volume. 



Beports of Committees. — The reports made by the Com- 

 mittee of Observation, so far as received, were read and briefly 

 discussed. A number of them were made verbally and conse- 

 quently were short and general in their character. This is to be 

 regretted, as it is important to the horticultural interests of the 

 state that these reports should be largely statistical and definite 

 in character, giving the facts and practical experience of each sea- 

 son, both for consideration at the time and for record. A number 

 of reports came to hand too late to be read at this time, but all 

 are given here for convenience of reference. 



FIRST DISTRICT — GEORGE JEFFREY, WATJWATOSA. 



COUNTIES — Kenosha, Racine, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Ozau- 

 kee and Washington. The summer of 1880 will be long remem- 

 bered by the people of Wisconsin, as the best fruit year the in- 

 habitants have ever seen. Apples were in great abundance, and 

 one peculiarity is that the kinds considered tender, such as 

 Northern Spy, Esopus Spitzenburg, Greening, Bellflower, Bald- 

 win, Early Harvest, etc., were very fine. Golden Busset fruited 

 well ; also Haas, Plumb's Cider, Dumelow's Seedling, Pewaukee, 

 Bambo, Bed Astrachan, Sops of Wine, Vandervere Pippin, 

 Twenty Ounce, Keswick Codling, Peck's Pleasant, Talman 

 Sweet, Ben Davis, Autumn Strawberry, Jonathan, Fameuse, Fall 

 Pippin, Alexander, Duchess, Seek-no-further, Willow Twig, Ut- 

 ter, Winter Wine Sap, and many others seemed to vie with 

 each other as to which should give us the best crop. The apple 

 production was simply immense, they were fed to cows, horses, 

 sheep, pigs, chickens, etc., they were carted to the cider mill and 

 made into cider, they rotted upon the ground. Some of the best 

 were taken to market and sold for twenty cents per bushel, in 

 early autumn. 



