WASHTENAW COUNTY POMOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY. 



OFFICERS FOR 18<». 



Fresideni — J. D. Baldwin. 



Vice-Presidenfs — J. J. Parshall, AYm. McCreery, Hanson Sessions. 

 Siicrcta ry — Jacob Gauzhorn . 

 Cor. Secretary — Emil Baur. 

 Trcdfiu rer — John Almand. 



Kxeciiiive Com. — John C. Schank. Jacob Schaefer, O. R. L. Crozier. 

 CfhriafoJof/isf — Prof. W. M. Harrington. 

 OrviihoJogisI and Entomologist — Prof. J. B. Steere. 

 Hygienist — Prof. A. B. Prescott. 

 Botanist — Prof. Volney Spaulding. 



The deliberations of the society occupied much of its time during the 

 winter months in perfecting arrangements for transportation by freight of 

 berries and peaches, inaugurated the year before. The system worked well 

 but required the perfecting of details essential to prompt delivery from 

 freight cars to the commission merchant. The delay in getting the fruit 

 to the place of sale, but a few hours, resulted in a diminished price of the 

 fruit. From our experience thus far, berries and peaches can be more care- 

 fully handled in loading on board freight cars than by express. There is 

 too much hurry required by the express trains in loading and unloading. 



We make a saving in the freight by a cut from 35 cents per hundred 

 weight to 14 cent«. 



GRAPE ROT. 



The loss of grapes by grape rot is very great here and considerable time 

 must be spent by the society in discussing means to tight this disease. 



In the February meeting Prof. Spaulding, the society's botanist, gave a 

 very careful account of the malady, giving its history and spread through- 

 out the country. From the nature of the disease, all modes of treatment 

 should or must be preventive, as no cure can be effected after the rot has 

 commenced. The treatments thus far developed are as follows: 1. In 

 the autumn all fallen leaves should be raked up and burned, all trimmings 

 should also be burned; the dry and shriveled berries on the vines or on 

 the ground should be destroyed also or burned. 



This mode of treatment is for reducing the infection for the next year. 



2. Putting a paper bag (two pound grocery bags) over the bunches. 

 The sacking must be done right after blossoming. Delay is fatal. 



3. Spraying the vines with a copper solution known as the Bordeaux 

 mixture. 



