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dollars. Each and every member of the company, when engaged in arresting 

 offenders against the criminal laws of the State, shall have all the protection, 

 rights and privileges of constables, and may call to their aid the peace officers 

 of the State, in accordance with law, in the pursuit of felons and reclaiming 

 stolen property. 



I call your attention to this law, believing that under its provisions a company 

 can be organized that may and will be of service in protecting the property of 

 the fruit-grower, as well as in the detection and apprehension of thieves. 



September Meeting. 



This was one of the best attended meetings the society has ever held, and 

 one of unusual interest to the commercial fruit grower. There was a large 

 display of the fruits in season, and also a fine display of flowers. 



The" society thus far has been in the habit of discussing the fruits that 

 ripened about the time of the meetings, and took up the peach as the subject 

 for discussion, it being the most prominent fruit at this time in the county. 



Prof. Emil Baur discouraged the planting of so many peach trees, as he was 

 fearful the matter was being overdone. 



Mr. J. D. Baldwin said : I would plant more later varieties than we have 

 heretofore done. The Smock is safe to plant, and I would plant something 

 that ripens ten days later. There is no danger of injuries by frosts on our high 

 elevations. The Troth's Early does well with me on a sandy soil, but on heavy 

 clay it does not grow as large, and I intend to replace it with other varieties 

 where found on such soil. I am confident we can make the peach reasonably 

 profitable if properly managed. 



J. Austin Scott. — I was both gratified and amused in listening to the pre- 

 ceding speakers. If properly managed, fruit culture on an average is profit- 

 able. I believe if a strict count were kept by the peach men of this vicinity, 

 a fair profit remains. I consider a high clay spot most favorable for ripening 

 early peaches. The kinds of peaches and also the markets should be studied. 

 I do not believe in planting too many of one variety. By having earlier and 

 later varieties we may often catch something by having some of our dishes 

 right side up when the rain falls. Wheat and other products are sometimes 

 overdone, but for all that we should not be discouraged. The country was 

 never more prosperous than to-day. I think, like friend Baldwin, that there 

 are ways open out of the apparent troubles. 



Judge P. L. Page. — I think it not becoming in us to complain because high 

 prices were not paid for the peaches the present season. In some of the east- 

 ern States, where the peach is largely grown, the peach men experienced simi- 

 lar difficulties until they learned how to preserve fruits in various ways as now 

 put up for the trade, and then the business became permanently and firmly 

 established, and on a paying basis. I am of the hope that there will be some 

 practical way to take care of our soft fruit that it may be profitably saved. 



Dr. M. A. Couklin. — As to varieties, the Early Crawford is planted too largely. 

 I have but fifty trees of that kind. I planted largely of the earliest varieties. 

 I would urge the importance to plant varieties of early and late and so spread 

 over as large a space of time as possible. In regard to soil I find that on a 

 sandy soil and a southern slope, peaches ripen the earliest. It is so with all 

 fruits. I would set late varieties on a northern slope. 



J. D. Baldwin. — I think Prof. Baur ought to be cheered up. We have now 

 passed through the worst of the present season. We want to plant more 



