82 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Evening Session, 



The hall was crowded. Dr. Boyd gave the welcoming address, lie took 

 pleasure in welcoming the horticulturists to the hospitalities of Dublin, which 

 is a town of 1,200 inhabitants, surrounded by a rich horticultural region, has 

 a union school of 200 pupils, lias not a native child over ten years of age who 

 cannot read and write, has six churches and 552 members, has not now and 

 never has permitted a saloon keeper to ply his vocation here, scared one away 

 some years ago by dumping a load of stones opposite and posting a notice for 

 him to leave, and more recently a pump augur found its way through the side 

 of the building and into the barrels and the contents all leaked out. At a 

 certain presidential election there were 307 votes cast for one candidate, and 

 none for the other; Ave are all horticulturists. 



President Johnson responded in his happiest style. He thought there was a 

 peculiar fitness in the society meeting in a temperance town, for in 1875 the 

 society decided that the manufacturing of wine was a business distinct from 

 the occupation of the horticulturist, and resolved that we disapprove of the 

 manufacture of wine and cider as a beverage, and as to the people of Dublin 

 all voting one way, it was all right if they only voted for our candidate. 



Dr. Furnass then gave a very good lecture "On the planting and care of an 

 apple orchard, and the profits of fruitgrowing." Get trees with good roots, 

 without being particular about the bodies. Average distance apart 32 feet. 

 Take care of your orchard, set out carefully, grow corn or potatoes and tend 

 them. Doirt raise oats in your orchard ; never saw a good orchard where oats 

 were grown. Do not manure your land ; the soil is good enough all through 

 Indiana without manure. He gave statistics to show if their orchards bore 

 only one year out of four they would make more money than by raising any 

 other crop. 



DISCUSSION ON KEEPING WINTER APPLES. 



Mr. Hammond thinks their autumns too warm to raise a good keeping win- 

 ter apple. We must depend on a place having a cooler climate, such as Michi- 

 gan, New York or Nova Scotia. Mr. Stevens gathers his apples a month 

 earlier than his neighbors, and places them in sugar buckets and hangs them 

 to the joists of his cellar and they keep well. 



Mr. Ohmer, of Dayton, gathers early, places in barrels, heads up, lays on 

 the side in the shade ; in November, sort and re-barrel, and place in a cool 

 place, keep from freezing and they will not rot. Mr. Hobbs gathers early, 

 puts them in a cool cellar and they keep well. Keeps chickens and pigs in the 

 orchard. Mr. Stout gathers early and puts in a rail pen lined and covered 

 with corn stalks. 



Second Day. 



REPORTS FROM SEVERAL FRUIT DISTRICTS. 



The State is divided into 13 districts, the same as the congressional districts, 

 and a vice-president in each district makes a report. 



An election of officers resulted in the reelection of the present incumbents. 



"Difficulties in the way of successful orcharding," by C. M. Hobbs. 



He was surprised to see so few good orchards in the country. People are 



