17G STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



AFTER MANAGEMENT. 



About July 8 and every ten clays thereafter till August 30, and again in November, 

 tlie bands should be carefully unwound, after removing the outer tack, and every one 

 of the " worms" or puj ae crushed. The worms are so large as to be easily seen, 

 whether in cocoons or not, and none need be missed. After all are crushed the band 

 should l)e again tacked. 



A small tack-hammer, with a good claw, suspended about the neck, will be very 

 convenient in this work. 



WHO SHOULD DO IT. 



As will be seen, this work comes just when the farmer and pomologist are most 

 occupied. That every man of a neighborhood or community would attend to the 

 work, is expecting too much. yet. all suffer from each case of neglect. There must be 

 concert of action. Why not, then, employ some trusty man or boy to give it his 

 whole time, expressly stating in the contract that a .-ingle case of neglect subjects 

 the employ6 to a forfeiture of all reward. The expense to each orchard of 100 trees 

 will then be under $3.00. Surely no one will complain of the expense. 



Cellars where apples were stored should have wire gauze at the windows in May 

 and June, that no moths may escape to the orchards. 



What neighborhoods of Michigan will secure these generous prizes, and the still 

 better prize of perfect apples? 



A. J. COOK, 

 Entomologist State Pomological Society. 



The Lansing meeting in June was given up to arranging for State fair, 

 adjustment of financial matters, deciding upon methods of distributing 

 reports, and a visit to the Agricultural College, in connection with the State 

 Board of Agriculture and the Executive Committee of the State Agricultural 

 Society, an account of which will be given by Mr. Satterlee at this meeting 

 of the society in Ann Arbor. 



The meeting in Battle Creek was given up to routine business connected 

 with the strawberry festival. 



The meeting in Detroit dealt with business connected with the work of the 

 annual fair, adjustment of claims, etc. 



The session in Lvasing in November wis to settle the discretionary pre- 

 miums awarded by committees at the fair; to arrange for our annual meeting; 

 and a committee was selects! to lo>k up matters of legislation connected with 

 our horticulture, that may be desirable to present at the next session of the 

 legislature. The committee were Messrs. Lyon, Gibson and Satterlee. 



The meeting of the board here in Ann Arbor decided to hold the next ses- 

 sion in Lansing; received the report of committee on legislation. The by-laws 

 were so amended as to cover the following point: Any person paying one dol- 

 lar to secretary of a branch society, by having his name and half of the fee 

 transmitted to secretary of the State society, shall be entitled to an annual 

 certificate of membership for the current year: Provided, The remaining half 

 of the fee shall be used by the branch society in the furtherance of horticult- 

 ural work in its locality. 



President Lyon was selected a delegate to the annual meeting of the State 

 agricultural society; and Ii. Dale Adams, Prof. \V. J. Beal, and S. B. Maun 

 were chosen delegates to the convention of Michigan agricultural societies. 



The matter of choosing a vice-president for the Mississippi valley horticult- 

 ural society was laid over until the February meeting. 



FRUIT HISTORY OF MICHIGAN. 



Every now and then since I have been secretary of this society, facts have 

 been communicated to me connected with the early planting of trees and gar- 



