PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



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The expenditures are classified thus: 



For secretary $50 00 



Expense of quarterly meetings 3 20 



Expenses of library 26 57 



Expenses of secretary's office. * 75 00 



Items in treasurer's report 21 75 



Balance on hand 104 33 



155 



Respectfully, 



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$280 85 



C. Reid, 

 Secretary. 



REPORT ON FRUIT AND FLOWERS. 



Your committee oa fruit and flowers Bhown, would report that they find on the 

 tables four collections of apples, exhibited by Saranac Horticultural society, 14 

 varieties; E. C. Phillips, 12 varieties; W. B. Andruss, 13 varieties; S. B. Smith, 15 

 varieties. All contain varieties of merit, but, as they are unusually free from scab and 

 insect injuries, and are well handled, we award the premium of llO in nursery stock, 

 offered by the West Michigan Nurseries, to E. C. Phillips of Grand Rapids, for the fol- 

 lowing varieties: Shiawassee, King, Hubbardston, Jonathan, Red Canada, Wagener, 

 Baldwin, Grimes, R. I. Greening, Northern Spy, Ben Davis, Talman. 



We also find a few scattering pears and several varieties of apple without name. 



There is also a jar of cranberries grown by D. C. Leach, Walton, and exhibited by 

 Wesley Johnson. 



There is also a collection of flowers from the Agricultural college greenhouse, includ- 

 ing orchids, cannae, Poinsettia, and clerodendron. 



The ladies of Lowell have also taken great pains to decorate the room with evergreens 

 and bunting, for which they have the thanks of the society. 



L. R. Tapt, 



T. T. Lyon, 



A. S. Packard. 



REPORT ON IMPLEMENTS. 



Your committee would report that they found on exhibition by Morrill & Morley of 

 Benton Harbor, the Eclipse spray pump, both complete and in its separate parts. This 

 pump embodies principles of construction aimed at securing greater efficiency and 

 durability, which make it worthy of the most careful examination of any one who con- 

 templates using such an implement. They also exhibit an automatic spraying outfit 

 which seems to be valuable as a labor-saving device; and lastly, they show a full line of 

 spraying nozzles. 



We think the thanks of the society are due to these gentlemen for making such a 

 full and complete exhibit, particularly as we feel certain that often so-called spraying 

 proves valueless through the inefficiency of the apparatus used. 



The committee understand that nothing but unexpected delay in the delivery of 

 freight prevented the exhibition by J. A. Pearce of Grand Rapids, of the spraying out- 

 outfit made by the Bean-Chamberlain Co. 



The committee also found on exhibition by R. M. Kellogg, a machine for cutting run- 

 ners and one for forming a properly shaped hole, having a cone of earth in the 

 center, for the setting of strawberry plants. They are both ingenious and worthy of 

 attention of every strawberry culturist. 



Thomas Wilde, 



C. J. Monroe, 



W. W. Tracy. 



