REPORTS OF COUNTY SOCIETIES. 257 



W. Sargent, Vice-President; S. W, Gilbert, Secretary; and D. C. 

 Huxley, Treasurer. We have held monthly meetings since that time 

 with increasing interest. Our plan of holding meetings for the coming 

 season is at the homes of members, in different parts of the county, 

 and hope to enroll a large membership during the coming season. 



It is not generally known that Oregon county is making rapid 

 strides toward the top of the ladder, in the way of commercial orchards. 

 One farm alone planted 500 acres of apples and peaches in winter and 

 spring of 1893 4. Among other trees, there are 20,000 Elbertas planted 

 on this farm alone. Many other commercial orchards were planted last 

 winter and spring, and more are on their way to be planted this spring. 

 We have thousands of acres of good fruit land in our county that can 

 be bought for from $2.50 to $10 per acre, according to location and 

 improvement. S. W. Gilbert. 



LIVINGSTON COUNTY. 



The Livingston County Horticultural Society has twenty live and 

 energetic members. We had a membership of over fifty at one time in 

 our history, but from some cause, not known to us, they became delin- 

 quent and were dropped from the list of the Society, from time to time, 

 until now we have only twenty. The Horticultural Society, however, 

 has done a great deal toward developing the fruit industry in the county. 

 There have been many commercial orchards planted throughout the 

 county in the last five years that are being cared for in a manner that 

 is a credit to our orchardists as well as the county. Now I don't want 

 you to understand me to say that all the orchards in Livingston county 

 are well cared for, for they are not, but you can see more rapid 

 strides toward horticultural development nowthan was ever before 

 known in the history of the county. The people seem to begin to 

 realize the necessity of fruit as an every day in the year diet. There 

 is scarcely a farm but that has an orchard for home use, composed of 

 apples, plums, pears, and a large per cent have the small fruits in 

 abuntiance. Small fruits for market are grown in Livingston county 

 quite extensively and profitably to the grower — strawberries yielding 

 as high as 4000 quarts per acre, selling at 10 to 12|^ cents per quart in 

 local markets. 



The varieties of apple that are being most extensively planted are : 

 for winter — Ben Davis, Gano, Willow Twig and Jonathan. Fall — Mai- 

 den Blush, Weathy. Summer — Early Harvest, Red Aslrachan, Yellow 

 Transparent. Strawberries — Jessie, Bubach No. 5, Warfield No. 2. 



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